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Bhavarlal Jain - An Innovative Gandhian

Bhavarlal Jain - An Innovative Gandhian

Shri Bhavarlal H Jain, Founder Trustee of Gandhi Research Foundation, aged 79 passed away on 25 February, 2016 after a brief illness at a hospital in Mumbai.

'Bhau' as people fondly called him, was a multifaceted personality; a Gandhian thinker, Educationist, Writer, unique Agro innovator, Water Technocrat, Ecological Campaigner, Businessman, Institution Builder, Patriarch of a joint family, warm grandfather, enviable human and many more. Indian agriculture sector would ever remember him for his pioneering work on Micro-Irrigation.

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What Mahatma Gandhi did to save Bhagat Singh

What Mahatma Gandhi did to save Bhagat Singh

Gandhi's failure to secure commutation of Bhagat Singh's execution has provided his critics a convenient weapon to attack him. He has been accused of making half-hearted effort and even deception - for the alleged discrepancy between his actual role and his public statements. This paper attempts to establish that while following a consistent approach towards revolutionary violence, Gandhi tried his best to save the lives of Bhagat Singh and his colleagues till the last moment. The paper also discusses Gandhi's strategy to focus on suspension rather than commutation of the death sentence.

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Also Read Gandhi's letter to the Viceroy regarding the sentence of death to Bhagat Singh

        

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11th Global Youth Peace Fest (GYPF-2016)

11th Global Youth Peace Fest (GYPF-2016)

Celebrating 11 Years of Youth leadership & Nonviolence

September 28 - October 02, 2016, Chandigarh and Shimla, India.

11th Global Youth Peace Fest (GYPF 2016) will take place from September 28th to October 2nd, 2016 in Chandigarh and Shimla, India. For over a decade, we at Yuvsatta (Youth for Peace) realized the significance of promoting peace and transformative change through active involvement of young people. And initiated GYPF- a platform for young change makers and youth leaders from all around the world to join hands in order to make a difference. Last year at GYPF-2015, over 300 young people from 29 countries and more than 20,000 local youth had contributed ideas and actions for creating a peaceful world for a better tomorrow.

GYPF 2016 shall provide another opportunity to all international and local delegates to contribute towards a sustainability thinking and action. We find it essential to maximize the potential and diversified talent that young people have and unite them in order to actively be involved and play an important role in inspiring change
 

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Gandhi Journal Article-III (March 2016) : Gandhi's Philosophy of Nonviolence

Gandhi Journal Article-III (March 2016) :

Gandhi's Philosophy of Nonviolence

With Gandhi, the notion of nonviolence attained a special status. He not only theorized on it, he adopted nonviolence as a philosophy and an ideal way of life. He made us understand that the philosophy of nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak; it is a weapon which can be tried by all.

Nonviolence was not Gandhi’s invention. He is however called the father of nonviolence because according to Mark Shepard, “He raised nonviolent action to a level never before achieved.” ¹ Krishna Kripalani again asserts “Gandhi was the first in Human history to extend the principle of nonviolence from the individual to social and political plane.”² While scholars were talking about an idea without a name or a movement, Gandhi is the person who came up with the name and brought together different related ideas under one concept: Satyagraha.

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4 death sentenced inmates and 10 inmates of Anda cell with other 75 jail inmates of Arthur Road Jail appeared for Gandhi Peace Exam

Arthur Road Jail inmate's 'Experiments with Truth'

4 death sentenced inmates and 10 inmates of Anda cell with other 75 jail inmates of Arthur Road Jail appeared for Gandhi Peace Exam

Two Anda cell prisoners are exam toppers amongst prisoners with 79 out of 80 marks

Gandhiji said, ‘Hate the sin, not the sinner.’ It is mostly the violent act that puts one behind bars but repentance can dilute it and it seems true for the 89 inmates of Arthur Road Jail who appeared for Gandhi Peace exam today. Among them, 4 death sentenced inmates and 10 Anda cell (egged-shaped high security cell) inmates appeared for the exam. One Jail official also appeared for the exam. Two of the Anda cell prisoners are toppers in the exam with 79 out of 80 marks.
"I came to know true value of truth and ahimsa. I realized the mistakes made by me and took a vow not to go astray in life," one of the Anda cell prisoner expressed his view in feedback after the exam. He wrote a letter to Sarvodaya Mandal last year, expressing his interest in reading Gandhi Books and appear for Gandhi exam and Mandal also send Gandhi’s autobiography to him.

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Gandhi Journal Article-II (March 2016) - Gandhian Revalution of Values

Gandhi Journal Article-II (March 2016)

Gandhian Revalution of Values

By J. B. Kripalani

Gandhi kept his new philosophy and technique of Satyagraha, that is, resistance to tyranny through truth and nonviolence, before the nation for its fight against British imperial domination, for its freedom, recon­struction and advancement, some twenty-five years before Independence. It is now more than thirty years since we achieved our Independence. No new ideas have emerged since then for the country's reconstruction and advancement. However, people are wondering, after these fifty- five years, whether Gandhi's ideas and techniques of Satyagraha have any relevance at the present time and hereafter. It is true that they are now better known and received by the learned than they were before. This may be due to the fact that the Janata Government has declared its adherence to Gandhi's basic principles, ideas, and main programmes for the reconstruction and progress of the country. In India, it is even now a fact that whatever the rulers approve of is accepted by the people, including the so-called intellectuals.

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