November 2014 Blog Posts (14)

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               NOBLE THOUGHTS FROM ALL OVER

                                   By Brigadier Chitranjan Sawant,VSM

A Ved mantra exhorts human beings MANURBHAV, that is be a MAN. In other words we should overcome our animal passions and sublimate our instincts and thoughts to a higher level to think and act for the good of Mankind. When a man is possessed by Noble Thoughts, he or she just cannot be guided by baser motives.…

(January 28-30, 2015)

Organized by

Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust (SAPMT), Ahmedabad…

                                         Recommendations  for the success of Clean India Campaign

A seminar was organised in Chennai on 22^nd November,2014 on “How to make Clean India campaign successful?”

Seminar was well attended by cross section of engineers, IT professionals, social activists and  teaching…

Punch Line Contest by GPCA

Last month, Gandhi Peace Centre, Australia (GPCA) has launched a contest to create a "Punch-Line" for the promotion of Peace, Nonviolence, Brotherhood, Equality and other ideals of Mahatma Gandhi through their Facebook page.  Prizes are awarded in two categories: Top 5 entries which get the maximum ‘like’s in the page and 5 best punch lines selected by the GPCA judges.

First round of the…

RESPECTED GANDHIAN' S BE AWARE

IN INDIA, RECENTLY SOME GROUPS ORGANIZED A CAMP ON KISSING IN PUBLIC PLACES.

IT WILL CREATE LAW &…

A new book "Lessons in Non-violent Civil Disobedience (Satyāgraha) From the life of M. K. Gandhi and His Legacy" is now available for for free download from the website a href="http://www.free-ebooks.net%3E">www.free-ebooks.net>;.  It starts with a brief history of India, how British were ruling over India and life of M. K. Gandhi.  Later it describes weaknesses of Mohan, like fear, and how he overcame them to become a fearless leader of thousands of Indians in…

Importance of Gandhian thoughts about Cleanliness

By Dr. Shubhangi Rathi

On 2nd October, 2014, the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra…

The Satyagrahi in South Africa

By Nechama Brodle

Hundred years is a long time, particularly in a town only a little older than a century itself. 

The road to Tolstoy Farm, Mahatma Gandhi's…

Mahatma Gandhi may not have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but he has certainly given us over a dozen Peace Prize winners!

By Ramesh Oza

Amongst all the Nobel Peace Prize winners, the two most deserving persons…

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                    LIVE LIFE VEDIC WAY

                     By Brigadier Chitranjan Sawant,VSM

Sixteen Sansakars are prescribed for an embodied soul of a human being professing Vedic Dharm. The story of a human life begins with the Garbhadhan Sanskar when a sperm fertilises an egg and life process begins in the mother’s womb. Indeed right from there the education of the unborn fetus begins and goes on in a…

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                    LIVE LIFE VEDIC WAY

                     By Brigadier Chitranjan Sawant,VSM

Sixteen Sansakars are prescribed for an embodied soul of a human being professing Vedic Dharm. The story of a human life begins with the Garbhadhan Sanskar when a sperm fertilises an egg and life process begins in the mother’s womb. Indeed right from there the education of the unborn fetus begins and goes on in a…

Some years ago there was a good initiative by the University Grants Commission to establish Gandhian Studies Centres in the Universities and Colleges under the Epoch Making Social Thinkers of India Scheme with the financial assistance from the UGC. As a result many Universities and Colleges had established the Centres for Studies and were performing good and everything was fine upto the end of XI Plan period (2007-2012). Later the proposals for the…

Gandhi's nonviolent approach offers lessons for peace movements, Stanford scholar says

Mohandas Gandhi's organizational innovations were instrumental to the success of India's independence movement, Stanford scholar Saumitra Jha…