Showing posts with label Gandhian principles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gandhian principles. Show all posts

Friday, March 3, 2017

Gandhi Journal Article-I ( MARCH 2017 ) - Relevance of Gandhian principles in Agriculture

Gandhi Journal Article-I ( MARCH 2017 )

Relevance of Gandhian principles in Agriculture

By Balamurali Balaji 
Agriculture is the ancient, essential and the foremost important occupation in the world. Man began systematic cultivating of plants and crops thousands of years ago and produced food for the very basic need of life. In order to meet the needs of everyone, he ought to adopt various methods of cultivation, store grains and the produces, and enrich the ways of consuming the produces. He had to fight with the nature, the primary threat the agricultural farms face every day that includes sunlight, heat, rainfall, soil and other climatic conditions. As the methods of cultivation evolve, the risks also develop for the cultivators to obtain the effective yields as expected.

Today’s risks are different from what the farmers dealt in the yesteryears. Most of the risks are artificially created, and some are politically motivated. The government and the administration have been playing a double role of educating the farmers on appropriate methods of cultivation on one hand and denying the rights of the farmers in implementing those methods on the other.  Farmer’s profession has been highly politicized when it comes to accruing loans, grants, resources and lastly in selling the produces too.

The agricultural sector has gone in to the exorbitant state of horrified scenes that include farmer suicides, desiccated crops, and dried lands with no water. Deaths due to starvation and lack of nourished food are another tragic affair going on in the country.

What Gandhi can do in such critical situation? Do farmers become greedier? Or, do they have something learn from the teachings of Gandhi to sustain prevailing conditions that throw them out of their profession succumbing to natural and artificially created atmosphere in the field of agriculture? This article broadly explores the agricultural scenario and tries to answer these questions.

 
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Scholars mark 100 years of Mahatma Gandhi's return to India from South Africa

Scholars mark 100 years of Mahatma Gandhi's return to India from South Africa

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Academicians from around the world who converged at Johannesburg to mark the centenary of Mahatma Gandhi's return to India from South Africa have called for adhering to Gandhian principles for promoting interreligious dialogue.

A two-day international conference in commemoration of Mahatma Gandhi's return to India after initiating his passive resistance plans in South Africa, where seeds of his 'Satyagraha' were sown, was held over the weekend where various speakers from India, the US and Africa were in attendance.  

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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Hollywood actress walks the Gandhian Path

 Hollywood actress walks the Gandhian Path

A Life of Fulfilment

Gwyneth Paltrow is a familiar name to those watching Hollywood movies.

This Hollywood actress is an Academy Award winner. Her affectionate husband is a rock star. She has been blessed with a girl named “Apple’’. The actor is a celebrity in New York and London.

…In September 2005, Time magazine had published an article on Gwyneth Paltrow under the title, “The simple life”.  In the US, many celebrities are opting out of the rat race, chasing after status, wealth, fame and career. They opt to live a simple life.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Gandhi Film Script Contest - 2012


Indian Infotainment Media Corporation (iiMC) organised
Gandhi Film Script Contest - 2012

iiMC is providing a golden opportunity to every student studying in any school or college in India to participate in Gandhi Film Script Contest - 2012. The participant has to write a film-script for public-service-film to take part in this contest. Topic is :GANDHIJI or GANDHIAN PRINCIPLES

No entry fee is charged and one may send as many scripts as he / she likes, but the entries much be sent by Ordinary Post only before 15th August, 2012