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About 3,589 Students participated in the Peace Rally and took the pledge to work for Peace & Nuclear-free World
6TH
AUGUST - HIROSHIMA DAY REMEMBERED
About
3,589 Students participated in the Peace Rally and
took the pledge to work for
Peace & Nuclear-free World
Students carrying placards marched for peace and nuclear-free world.
Students, graphically depicting
the horror of the atom bomb, along with about 3,589 students
from 78 colleges, social activists, and peace-loving citizens in
the city marched for peace and a nuclear-free world from Azad
Maidan to Hutatma Chowk on Hiroshima Day, today.
The Peace march
was jointly organized by Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal and NSS Units
of SNDT & Mumbai University to mark the 67th anniversary of the
devastation of Hiroshima & Nagasaki with a deadly atomic attack
by America during World War II & to join hands with millions of
people of the world in their prayers to make a nuclear-free
world.
Thought For The Day ( ATOM BOMB )
Commemorating 67th anniversary of atomic bombing on Hiroshima, on 6th August 1945
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Gandhi Journal Article - I
GANDHI : Rethinking the possibility of Non-violence
Prof. Sudhir Chandra, Centre for Social Studies
…Gandhi’s
anguish was manifold. But it centred around his tragic discovery that the
freedom struggle led by him had not been the unique non-violent struggle that
he and the whole world had believed it to have been.
The
discovery forced itself upon him when the country erupted into savage violence
on the eve of Independence. Could decades of non-violence, Gandhi wondered,
have produced such savagery? ‘No,’ was his categorical answer. Whence, then,
had the savagery come? Gandhi came up with an answer that has left academic
wisdom as well as popular memory untouched. But it is an answer that
necessitates a radical re-examination of what Gandhi is believed to have
achieved and, consequently, of his potential as a continuing historical
presence. READ FULL ARTICLE…
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