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Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal's Blog – March 2012 Archive (3)

Vinoba's Movement: An Overview

By Kanti Shah

…‘Sarvodaya’, the word, was coined 100 years ago. In ancient literature, this word might have been used in some context, but its use as a definitive philosophy is only 100 years old.

This word took shape in Gandhi’s mind in 1904 when he read Ruskin’s book ‘Unto This Last’, but the word took…

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Relevance of Gandhi - A View From New York

By E S Reddy

…The civil rights movement led by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King in the 1950s, as well as much of the resistance to the Vietnam war, were inspired by Gandhi. Many hundreds of volunteers went through training in nonviolence. The success of these movements demonstrated that active…

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Gandhian Approach to Peace and Non-violence

By Siby K Joseph

Dean of Studies and Research,

Institute of Gandhian Studies, Wardha, India.

…For Gandhi, non-violence was a creed or an article of faith. He subscribed to non-violence on the basis of a deep faith in it. His complete adherence to non-violence was based on…

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