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Michael Rajiv Shah Premium Member Group moderatorThe company name is only visible to registered members.Gandhi's birthday
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Michael Rajiv Shah Premium Member Group moderatorThe company name is only visible to registered members.
From the land of ahimsa…
From the land of ahimsa…
On 2 October 1947, a news correspondent asked Gandhi if he wanted to make a birthday statement. Gandhiji with a questioning look asked him, “Birthday? Whose birthday?”
“Why, uh, yours sir!”
“Who told you it is my birthday?” Gandhi demanded. “Everyday is my birthday. Everyday is your birthday. You see, we begin a new life everyday, so everyday is our birthday!” And he chuckled at his innocent joke.
This was the Mahatma, our Gandhi.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in a simple Gujrati family, pursued education in England and became a barrister. But the comfortable life could not satisfy a man of so much greatness. He traveled from England to South Africa and back to his own country where he fought the greatest battle of his life, a battle of Right against Might.
He was a simple but practical statesman, who fought one of the greatest empires ever made by man. He believed in his ideals - truth and non-violence.
Gandhiji was an embodiment of simplicity, of unbound love, care and affection for all who came near him. He won everybody’s heart and with his guidance, millions of Indians achieved freedom, independence and got a better life. He was the closest person to his motherland. Mahatma Gandhi loved children, jokes and truth. All he ever hated was lies. But nobody could ever lie in front of the Mahatma. Nehru himself once said that Gandhiji “had a knack of making the people speak their heart.”
He was one of the immortal few across the centuries, who have lifted human character to immortal authority… who made humility and simple truth more powerful than empires. More importantly, he gave all of us an identity - of being an Indian, a proud “Brown” Indian, from the land of ahimsa, from the land of Gandhi.
Oishee Kundu, Class IX
Army Public School Kolkata
Source:http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=18&theme=...
- 02 Oct 2008, 10:52 am
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Michael Rajiv Shah Premium Member Group moderatorThe company name is only visible to registered members.
Gandhi in the 21st century
Gandhi in the 21st century
“I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills...
Mahatma Gandhi, lovingly called ‘Bapu’, and the ‘Father of the Nation’ is one of the most internationally acclaimed, respected and honoured persons of India. Well known as an apostle of peace, he was the man who through his methods of non-violence and Satyagraha gave our country freedom from the British.
In his honour, his birthday, 2 October has been declared a national holiday. It is supposed to be the day when we reminisce about this great person, respect his ideals and honour his supreme sacrifice for our freedom.
But the attitude of the people regarding this remarkable personality has undergone a radical change. In his times, Gandhiji’s word and nod of approval was required for every decision taken in regard with the country. His influence over all matters was unbounded. Such was the reverence that he received from his countrymen.
Today, Gandhiji’s ideals and beliefs have definitely taken a backseat in Indian politics. There is widespread corruption, violence and dishonesty in politics, quite contrary to what our Gandhiji preached.
One feels ashamed to say this is the country thrown to turpitude and a victim of corruption, which once held Gandhiji high in opinion for his teachings about non-violence and integrity.
Gandhiji preached equality for all and of all religions. Recently, there has been communal violence in Orissa and South India which is quite a disgrace to our so-called secular nation. It makes us bow our heads in shame.
Even Gandhiji’s popular belief of ahimsa or non-violence is considered useless and ineffective. Yet, Gandhiji said, “Non-violence is the first article of my faith and the last article of my creed”.
Many confuse between non-violence and cowardice thinking both to be strikingly similar. But non-violence essentially means to hate the crime and not the criminal. It is not the coward who uses ahimsa but the one who is strong enough to stand up against the wrong.
Sadly, India is following none of what Gandhiji preached and hence a holiday in his name stands no meaning either. How many of us even think about Gandhiji on his birthday? It is a day of relaxation for us - if lucky, an off from work on a week-day. For school-students it is no more a day in the diary marked as a holiday — a day to rest and repose after the exams or even to do some shopping. It is a piteous thing to think that it is often the newspapers and calendars that remind people of Gandhi Jayanti.
We Indians have been very fortunate to have someone like Gandhiji to guide us when our country was plunged in darkness. Romain Rolland, the great French thinker has aptly said, “Mahatma (the Great Soul) is his real name. For who else had felt like him, in communion with the people? Felt that they are of his own flesh and blood.”
SHANTI KIRAN NAYAK, Coordinator, Calcutta Girls’ High School
Source:http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=18&theme=...
- 02 Oct 2008, 10:54 am
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Michael Rajiv Shah Premium Member Group moderatorThe company name is only visible to registered members.
- 02 Oct 2008, 10:56 am
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Michael Rajiv Shah Premium Member Group moderatorThe company name is only visible to registered members.
- 31 Aug 2009, 07:08 am
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Michael Rajiv Shah Premium Member Group moderatorThe company name is only visible to registered members.
03.10.2009 Audiovisueller Vortrag: Auf den Spuren Mahatma Gandhis mit Peter Rühe #Frankfurt
https://www.xing.com/events/audiovisueller-vortrag-spuren-ma...
14.30–15.00 Uhr
Dr. Jona Aravind Dohrmann,
Einleitung, »Lighting of the Lamp«, Rückschau auf den 02. 10. 2009,
Vorstellung des Programms und der Referenten
15.00–18.00 Uhr
Peter Rühe, Berlin
»Mahatma Gandhi – Damals und heute« inkl. einer Audiovisionsschau
unter dem Titel »NAMASTE – Eine Reise durch Indien auf den Spuren von Mahatma Gandhi«
18.00–18.30 Uhr Dr. Jona Aravind Dohrmann + Peter Rühe
Schlußwort und Ende der Veranstaltung
- 31 Aug 2009, 07:09 am
