Gandhism In Our Times Samudra Biswas CIA III‚ 2ND EPS Regn No 1214415 Christ College Political Ideologies 231 Teacher Sindhuja Iyengar “On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget‚ that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds‚ but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.” ― Shashi Tharoor “I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause‚ but by non-participation
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encompasses what Gandhi’s ideas‚ words and actions mean to people around the world‚ and how they used them for guidance in building their own future. Gandhism also permeates into the realm of the individual human being‚ non-political and non-social. A Gandhian can mean either an individual who follows‚ or a specific philosophy which is attributed to‚ Gandhism. Eminent scholar‚ Professor Ramjee Singh has called Mahatma Gandhi the Bodhisattva of the twentieth century.[1] However Gandhi did not approve of
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gainsaying at all that WFM‚ for all its readability‚ is indeed unsatisfactory and disappointing as a novel. But if we could see it for what it really is in itself‚ we would be able to arrive at a fair assessment of it as well as Narayan’s handling of the Gandhian motif in it. The first thing to note about WFM is that it is not a “Gandhi-Novel” as one is very likely to assume it to be. Uma Parameswaran‚ for instance‚ has asserted: “It is aGandhian novel...and the theme is Gandhism.” (A Study of Representative
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Even the redoubtable Masterji’s Gandhian identity‚ despite his stoic resistance to materialism‚ is also shaped by his acute concerns about money. Despite having more money than he needs to take care of himself‚ he often walks a long distance to make free phone calls from his old school
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INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH POEM THE BEGINNING The renaissance in modern Indian Literature begins with Raja Ram Mohan Roy. The infiltration of western culture‚ the study of English literature‚ the adoption of western scientific techniques‚ gave a jolt to India’s traditional life. It shocked us into a new awareness‚ a sense of urgency‚ and the long dormant intellectual and critical impulse was quickened into sudden life and the reawakening Indian spirit went forth to meet the violent challenge of
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Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.: A Master of Peaceful Protests and Persuasive Rhetoric To fully understand Dr. King ’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” you must understand what times were like when King wrote his letter‚ who Dr. King was‚ and the criticism that Dr. King faced. The 1950 ’s and 1960 ’s were turbulent times for African Americans as they fought for equal rights as Americans. Jim Crow laws in the South dictated where blacks could sit in a restaurant or on a bus‚ they excluded blacks from
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andhi adhered to a strictly non-violent protest. No matter what happened he never diverted from his ideologies and every time he was successful. Gandhiji always followed the path of non-violence or Ahimsa. His tactic of passive resistance or Satyagraha was his weapon to fight against the British rule. Swaraj for Gandhi meant self-rule‚ as much a moral and personal ethic‚ the self-rule of an individual over his own impulses and weaknesses‚ as the political objective of a people struggling rightfully
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currency notes. The national flag’s evolution‚ with the replacement of the Gandhian charkha‚ with Aśoka’s dharmacakra‚ is a product of Nehru’s ideology‚ as mentioned in “Aśoka‚ Historical Discourse‚ and the Post-Colonial Indian State”‚ by Bhagwan Josh. Nehru was able to relate to Aśoka in terms of his ideology of ruling with a policy of non-violence‚ and respecting all religions equally. A symbol to represent such an ideology‚ and to stand for India’s ‘glorious past’ was required‚ and naturally‚ the
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Gandhi’s Concept on Education and Its Relevance in the Present Day V.N. Rajashekharan Pillai The Purpose of Education I have been involved in the university system for more than 30 years. I used to interact with a large number of under-graduate students in the colleges and universities. I used to go to the colleges and universities to address students as a Vice Chancellor. Society has always been criticizing and doubting the purpose of education. What is the purpose of education in society
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forward reforms. In 1991 the Congress I came back to power and economic reforms were introduced under the able guidance of finance minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. While the initial crisis was averted‚ it was unable to initiate the second phase of reforms. Critics claimed that the government had sacrificed India’s economic independence to the IMF. The first decade of reforms showed a great improvement in the growth rate of the country‚ which was achieved without any great deal of external borrowing. India began
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