Category: Year of Gandhi
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Portrait of Nandalal Bose, artist and freedom fighter
Bose was a key figure in the Indian Satyagraha for Freedom, pupil of Abindranath Tagore, and Gandhi’s favorite artist. He also sketched the emblems for the Government of India’s awards, including the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Shri, per Nehru’s request, in addition to decorating the Constitution of India
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Bāchā Khān on Islamic theology and nonviolence
I am going to give you such a weapon that the police and the army will not be able to stand against it…It is the weapon of the Prophet, but you are not aware of it. That weapon is patience and righteousness. No power on earth can stand against it. —Khān Abdul Gaffar Khān
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The Heroism of Satyagraha
Our heroes must be spiritual. –Swami Vivekananda What does the method and philosophy of Satyagraha reveal? It exposes the heart of human nature, in all of its contradictions. The law of satyagraha compels us to act with soul force, which necessitates activation of our soul memory, our spirit consciousness. If it follows that we were…
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Love Songs for the Prince Of Peace
I. Prelude: the Search Your smile is warming and knowing; It traps me like magnolias writhing against a garden gate. You lure me, in your promise of love lingering, the greatness of love. For you, the marshland sings with frogs, Turning a sharp green at the last wane of dusk, all quietly beckoning the truth…
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Letter to the students and faculty of Vanderbilt Divinity School about the expulsion of James Lawson, March 15, 1960
March 15, 1960 To the Faculty and Students of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School: We, faculty members and students of the Yale University Divinity School Association, are deeply concerned with the events that have recently placed you in a position of difficult decision and decisive witness. We fully support you in your protests against the…
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Mahatma Gandhi on Satanic Civilization
IT IS my firm belief that Europe today represents not the spirit of God or Christianity but the spirit of Satan. And Satan’s successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips. Europe is today only nominally Christian. In reality, it is worshipping Mammon. Young India, 8-9-1920 Neither railways…
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Gandhi’s Gospel Of Love and the Shadow Puppets Of Western Civilization
Betrayal in the Garden Amongst Indians and African-Americans who possess lived experience of the movement for peace and freedom in the twentieth century, the memory of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1959 visit to India, the Land of Gandhi, persists. Upon his return, King emphasized that “the bourgeoise—white, black or brown—behaves about the same the world…
Saraswati’s Garden 