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Malala Yousafzai,Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi, India win Nobel Peace Prize 2014

Indian children's right activist, Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistani teenager, Malala Yousafzai win Nobel Peace Prize 2014

Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls' right to education, and Indian children's right activist Kailash Satyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.

Yousafzai, aged 17, becomes the youngest Nobel Prize winner by far.
Satyarthi, 60, and Yousafzai were picked for their struggle against the oppression of children and young people, and for the right of all children to education, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
The award was made at a time when hostilities have broken out between India and Pakistan along the border of the disputed, mainly Muslim region of Kashmir - the worst fighting between the nuclear-armed rivals in more than a decade.
"The Nobel Committee regards it as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism," said Thorbjoern Jagland, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

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Mahatma Gandhi and Winston Churchill

By Vishwanath Tondon

Most students of India’s fight for independence may only be aware of Churchill’s famous 1931 remarks on Gandhi, when he went to meet the Viceroy, Lord Irwin, in his usual dress. Churchill had said: “It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious Middle [Inner] Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceregal palace, while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor.”1

One may also be aware that while in London to attend the Round Table Conference, Gandhi wanted to meet Churchill but the latter had refused to see him, though his son Randolph met Gandhi. And then later in July 1944, Gandhi had written to Churchill a letter saying, “Dear Prime Minister, You are reported to have a desire to crush the simple ‘naked fakir’ as you are said to have described me. I have been long trying to be a fakir and that [too] naked - a more difficult task. I, therefore, regard the expression as a compliment though unintended. I approach you then as such and ask you to trust and use me for the sake of your people and mine and through them those of the world.”2

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Now read Gandhi’s autobiography in Kashmiri, Punjabi also

Now read Gandhi’s autobiography in Kashmiri, Punjabi also

With the latest launch 'My Experiments with Truth' available in 17 Indian languages

 After about 87 years of first launch of Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography – My Experiments with Truth in 1927, Navajivan press released Kashmiri and Punjabi translations of the globally acclaimed autobiography of the father of the nation.

First published in Gujarati by the original author, M K Gandhi, the autobiography has been translated in sixteen other languages till date. Last translation was published in Konkani language in 2010 by Navjivan Trust, founded by Gandhi himself.

Punjabi and Kashmiri versions of the autobiography are available across the country from October 2, Gandhi’s 145th birth anniversary.

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Gandhian thoughts continue to inspire jail inmates

Gandhian thoughts continue to inspire jail inmates

92 Jail inmates of Taloja Jail appeared Gandhi Peace Exam

To evoke the sense of regret in the minds of jail inmates and reform and help them to be a responsible citizen of society, Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal and Saksham conducted Gandhi Peace Exam for the inmates of Taloja Central Jail.

On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, prizes and certificates were distributed to the inmates who appeared for the Gandhi Peace Exam on 2nd October.

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Celebrating 145th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and International Non-violence Day

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Gandhi's deliberations climaxed in Madurai

Gandhi's deliberations climaxed in Madurai

Gandhi donned loin-cloth for the first time at Madura to identify himself with India's poor.

 “All the alterations I have made in my course of life have been effected by momentous occasions; and they have been made after such a deep deliberation that I have hardly had to regret them. And I did them, as I could not help doing them. Such a radical alteration - in my dress, - I effected in Madura.”

- M. K. Gandhi

Ninety-three years back, on September 22, 1921, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi took the brave decision to shed his traditional attire and get into a ‘loincloth,’ which remained with him till death. The historic decision of the Mahatma to identify himself with the common man embellished Madurai’s reputation as an ancient city that enhanced even an ordinary man’s spiritual strength. He later recalled that though he came closer to taking a decision on his clothing on a couple of earlier occasions, it was Madurai that gave him the necessary strength.

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Newsletter: Book on Gandhi's Leadership in Russian

Newsletter: Book on Gandhi's Leadership in Russian

A book on Mahatma Gandhi's leadership qualities, penned by veteran Indian diplomat Pascal Alan Nazareth has been released in Russian, making it the sixth foreign language edition of the book.

The Russian edition of "Gandhi's Outstanding Leadership" was released on 11th September, 2014 by the Indian ambassador P S Raghavan and Director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences at the Institute.

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Newsletter: National Conference on trends and innovations in Gandhian Thought

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

on

Trends and Innovations in Gandhian Thought

(December 12th and 13th, 2014)

Organized by

Institute of Gandhian Thought Research & Action (IGTRA)
Kerala Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, Thiruvananthapuram-14, Kerala State, India.

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Gandhi Journal Article - III

What I owe to Mahatma Gandhi

By G. Mohambry Naicker

I was eight years old when Gandhiji left South Africa. I could not understand then the intricacies of politics or the meaning of the struggle which for two decades he had to wage against the authorities, but I have a very distinct recollection of the image that was stamped upon my young mind of the national hero whose name was a household word among the Indian community. I faintly realised in those early days the powers of the simple man who was to achieve in the fullness of time such miracles as even in their heyday warriors like Napoleon could only dream of. As the years went by I was able to assess the full power of the weapon of satyagraha which Gandhiji had perfected during his career as a public man in South Africa. When I reached the age of reason I began to make a deep study of the writings of Gandhiji, and although I became an adherent of his great principles, little did I think that it would fall to my lot to take up the flaming torch he had left behind. I was scarcely prepared for such a task; I did not feel inclined to be in the forefront of the struggle that began half a century ago. Yet when the call came, the response in me was instantaneous. It was the voice of Mahatma Gandhi calling for action. Without any preparation, without any experience, without the slightest hesitation, I threw myself into the battle. With faith undiminished in the righteousness of the cause we had espoused, I became, with thousands of my fellow countrymen a satyagrahi. I made the vow of reaching the goal that we had in view, no matter what sacrifice was demanded of us.

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Gandhi Journal Article - II

Gandhi and the Natal Indian Ambulance Corp

By Heather M. Brown

In the late nineteenth century, the socio-economic status of the indentured Indian population in South Africa changed as the growing ‘Arab’ population challenged white merchants for market dominance. As a result, the white European population retaliated with public prejudice that manifested itself “not only in humiliating, discriminatory social conventions, but also in legislation and municipal ordinances restricting Indian civil rights, franchise and freedom to enter, live and trade at will." It was in South Africa that the once-shy London-educated lawyer from Gujarat, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, spent twenty-one years of his life challenging the “increasingly strident and locally present determination of white settlers to maintain white superiority in matters social, economic and political.”

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