Unfinished Agenda
Mahatma Gandhi, the greatest man of the twentieth century, often talked about poverty. For the prophet of non-violence, poverty was the worst form of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi, the greatest man of the twentieth century, often talked about poverty. For the prophet of non-violence, poverty was the worst form of violence.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary on Wednesday, described him as the great hero of India's independence under whose leadership India gained Freedom.
Explore the notable actors who have portrayed Mahatma Gandhi in film, with their unique interpretations and contributions to bringing his legacy to life.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Wednesday paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of his 155th birth anniversary at Rajghat in the national capital.
President Droupadi Murmu and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of his 155th birth anniversary at Rajghat in the national capital.
Gandhis death snapped the dialectic link between politics and his Constructive Programme. While contemporary India is vastly different from Gandhis times, many of his fundamental concerns are alive. Todays India is more prosperous, but also vastly more unequal.
The practice of killing excellence by rating everyone as ‘outstanding,‘ starting with schools, is continued right up to the higher levels of bureaucracy, where most employees, even the undeserving ones, get the ‘outstanding‘ tag, resulting in bad eggs making it to the top echelons and damaging the venerable institutions which they serve.
Gandhi's reasons for the metamorphoses were contextual, psychological and assertively political for a reason ~and that reason was not to disparage Western clothing sensibilities as inferior, amoral or scandalous. Gandhi's insistence on 'Indianness' was not reflective of reverse-superiority or the 'uncivilisationalness' of the West, but in the more profound tenets of equality for all, without discrimination
Gandhi, like Hobbes and Machiavelli, recognized that the pursuit of power is a basic human characteristic. All political institutions are merely instruments for the pursuit of power, whether directly or by the indirect manner in which they maintain and foster the ownership of property and provide the psychological incentives that they are connected with power
"When I last met Frontier Gandhi in 1987 when he visited India for the final time in Mumbai's Raj Bhavan, he told me that patience was prescribed again and again in the Holy Quran, and patience and non-violence were very close to each other."
