December 2010 Blog Posts (19)

I am toying with the idea of making a documentary on the life and testimony of the late SARVODAYAM KURIAN - a true Gandhian in the southern Indian state of Kerala... who has been a great inspiration in my life.

He was a Gandhian activist who served as volunteer in Trincomalee (Ceylon, now Sri Lanka) during WWII.

After WWII he set up his own medical shop to aid the poor and marginalized in his native Vypeen Island, Narakkal in Kerala.

He was always there to serve the needy in…

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Dear Friends,

Accept my Christmas greetings from Cameroon. Just to give you updates of the book I am about to publish entitled "AFRICA NEEDS GANDHI" The relevance of Gandhi's doctrine of nonviolence to Africa. I want to thank first and foremost GOPI KANTA GHOSH and many of you…

“By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in child and man-body, mind and spirit. Literacy is not the end of education or even the beginning.” –M. K. Gandhi [Harijan: July 31,…

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The Gandhian life was a legendary quest of Experiments with Truth, which was his autobiography. For the Mahatma Truth and Non-violence were interchangeable terms. It was out of these he honed his invincible weapon of Non-violent Non-Co-operation Satyagraha, which ultimately won India her freedom.

Truth and non-violence were convertible terms for…

Reformed criminals take their life to a new destination

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Surendra Mohan - End of A Socialist Era

1929 - 2010

Surendra Mohan Ji breathed his last today morning. Even as we are trying to deal with the loss of some of his contemporaries - Prabhash Joshi Ji, L C Jain Saheb and Shanta Toofani (Mata ji), the year 2010 has dealt another blow to our collective struggles for a…

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For thousands of years Bharat, that is India, a land of unity in diversity has maintained a distinctive position among the nations of the world. People from diverse communities have lived together in India although the majority community consists of followers of one particular religious-belief; for, secularism and communal harmony have always played a vital and significant role. In other words, communal harmony is the basic character of India, a prime necessity for the life of the nation. In…

11.12.2010

Gandhiji changed my life'

T.V. Sivanandan

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AYAM NIJAH PAROVETI GANANAA LAGHU-CHETSAAM, UDAARA CHARITAANAAM TU VASUDHAIVA KUTUMBAKAM [‘this is my own and that a stranger’, is the calculation of the…

Timeless Inspirator - Reliving Gandhi : Conceptualized and Edited by Raghunath Malshekar

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8TH ALL INDIA SADBHAWNA LECTURE SERIES, WAS ORGENISED BY BHARTYA GYANPEETH, UJJAIN,MP. THIS LECTURE SERIES HAS BEEN ORGENICED IN THE MEMORY OF RENOUND LITERARY FIGGURE DR. SHIVMANGAL SINGH SUMAN. I WAS INVITED BY THE ORGANISORS TO DELIVER ONE OF THE LECTURES. THE SUBJECT GIVEN BY ME WAS IN HINDI LANGUAGE, GANDHI KI JARURAT KYON ? WHY WE NEED GANDHIJI ? I WAS GIVEN FOURTY MINITUS. I SPOKE ABOUT 20 MINUTS AND REST OF THE TIME WAS LEFT FOR QUESTIONS.

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