Commemorating the work of Mahatma Gandhi on the 66th anniversary of his assassination on January 30, 1948
This is a series of two interviews done by Gary Null on the PRN.fm network http://prn.fm/category/archives/gary-null-show/
Conversations With Remarkable Minds – Mahatma Gandhi – Part 1 (Pt 2 Below)
Dr. Vandana Shiva is an internationally renown environmental and social activist, and formerly a one of India’s top nuclear physicists. She is regarded as the leading pioneer behind India’s ecological and ecofeminism movement. In 1982 Dr. Shiva founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, which led to the creation of Navdanya – an organization dedicated to the restoration of organic farming across India and the preservation of indigenous knowledge and culture.
For several decades, Vandana has fought for changes in the globalized practices of agriculture and food. She has traveled the world speaking against biopiracy and patenting of indigenous knowledge by large agricultural and pharmaceutical corporations. Her activist efforts have created grassroots organizations throughout the developing world to counter genetic engineering of crops, as well as empower women throughout the third world.
Dr. Shiva has received numerous international awards, including the Alternative Nobel Prize (the Right Livelihood Award), the UNEP’s Global 500 Award and the UN’s Earth Day International Award.
Among her more important books are “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace”, “Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed”, “Soil Not Oil” and most recently “Making Peace with the Earth: Beyond Resource, Land and Food Wars”
Born in 1934 in Durban, South Africa, Arun Gandhi is the fifth grandson of India’s legendary leader, “Mahatma” Gandhi. Growing up under the discriminatory apartheid laws of South Africa, he was beaten by “white” South Africans for being too black and by “black” South Africans for being too white. His grandfather taught Arun to understand nonviolence through understanding violence.
For 30 years Arun worked as a journalist for the Times of India and founded the Center for Social Change which has aided half a million people in 300 villages of Maharashtra. Coming to the US in 1987 Arun and his wife Sunanda founded the M.K Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence now located at the University of Rochester in NY, and later founded the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute to foster economic equanimity in depressed regions of the globe.
He was recently elected to the Board of the Trustees for the Council for a Parliament of World Religions. Arun has written a series of books on Gandhi’s life, the relevance of Gandhi’s vision for today, and has edited publications of his grandfather’s writings including “The Way of God.” His website is ArunGandhi.net
Conversations With Remarkable Minds – Mahatma Gandhi – Part 2
Tushar Gandhi is the great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, regarded as the father of Indian nationalism and most renowned voice for non-violent activism for bringing about peaceful, democratic social change. Tushar is a social and peace activist, an artist and author. He runs the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation in Mumbai, which is dedicated to spreading Gandhian values and principles to address the challenges and threats facing humanity and our contemporary world and whose president is film director Lord Attenborough.
He is also the chairman for the Austalian-Indian Rural Development Foundation, is involved in projects to prevent child trafficking, and is an ambassador of an intergovernmental institution to promote the use of micro-algae spirulina as a nutritional source to fight malnutrition.
Tushar is the author of “Lets Kill Gandhi: A Chronicle of His Last Days, the Conspiracy, Murder, Investigation and Trial.”
External links
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- Sannuti, Arun (6 April 2010). “Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) – Vegetarianism: The Road to Satyagraha”. International Vegetarian Union (IVU). Retrieved 12 January 2012.
- Riggenbach, Jeff (February 2, 2011). “Does Gandhi Deserve a Place in the Libertarian Tradition?”. Mises Daily (Ludwig von Mises Institute).
- Gandhi Heritage Portal
- Gandhi Smriti — Government of India website
- Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya Gandhi Museum & Library
- Sughosh, India (2 October 2010). “Bapu: Complete Life History”. Research Work. http://www.bapu.sughosh.in. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- Gandhi Research Foundation – One-Stop info on Gandhi
- Works by or about Mahatma Gandhi in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Mohandas K. Gandhi materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)
- Works by Mahatma Gandhi at Project Gutenberg
- Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi at Find a Grave
1 Response to "Conversations With Remarkable Minds – Mahatma Gandhi"
It is feels good that GAndhiji’s grandsons are still makign an effort to keep the great leader and his contributions still alive in people’s heart by following his values and beliefs.