India’s democracy: Evolution, not Revolution
“Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.” – M.K. Gandhi Harijan, 1946 “… the total revolution...
View ArticleThe Gateway of India, redefined
December 2nd, 2011 marks a hundred years since the day that the Gateway of India commemorated, the first time a British sovereign – King George V – set foot on Indian soil. While celebrating the...
View ArticleReplacing Keynes with Gandhi
From the central hall of the Indian Parliament to a statue at Union Square New York and the far flung corners of the world, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is loved and celebrated as an apostle of...
View ArticleA long road ahead for India in Myanmar
Aung San Suu Kyi pulled no punches at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi when she delivered the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture on November 14, a full 19 years after she received the Nehru award for...
View ArticleA long road ahead for India in Myanmar
Aung San Suu Kyi pulled no punches at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi when she delivered the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture on November 14, a full 19 years after she received the Nehru award for...
View ArticleThe case for India-Alignment
Non-alignment is regarded as a seminal achievement of Jawaharlal Nehru, whose letters and essays on the international situation are seen as the insights of a genius by Indian and other historians. To...
View ArticleThe science of non-violence
Most of us long for a world in which there are no bombings, riots, wars – why then does non-violence seem so difficult to put into action? The challenge of putting non-violence into action is two-fold....
View ArticleThe science of non-violence
History has shown by numerous examples that in the constant duel between the forces of violence and non-violence, it is the peaceful method that triumphs Most of us long for a world in which there are...
View ArticleIndian media: Remembering Gandhi’s teachings
Media are paying tributes to independence leader Mahatma Gandhi on his 144th birth anniversary and feel his teachings remain “compellingly relevant” in present-day India. Gandhi – known as “the father...
View ArticleThe science of non-violence
Most of us long for a world in which there are no bombings, riots, wars — why then does non-violence seem so difficult to put into action? The challenge of putting non-violence into action is twofold....
View ArticleDialogue on Trusteeship: A futuristic ideal
On January 30, 2014, Gateway House and Sabarmati Ashram jointly hosted a dialogue on Trusteeship, a Gandhian ideal, that has been given scant attention. A small group of business people, scholars,...
View ArticleEmerging India and the neighbourhood
The self-image and aspirations of contemporary India are best exemplified in the Annual Review for 2010 published last month by the Indian Foundation for National Security Research, tenth in the...
View ArticleThe discovery of Asia
How we map the world, its regions, its states, is as much an act of the imagination as it is a product of empirical fact or of the effects of power. Once put in place, such mappings appear solid and...
View ArticleIndia’s democracy: Evolution, not Revolution
“Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.” – M.K. Gandhi Harijan, 1946 “… the total revolution...
View ArticleBubbling-Up vs. Trickling-Down
There is palpable tension everywhere in India at the inequalities and the idea that the middle class is driving the economy. Bribery and corruption, robbery and social violence apart from suicides are...
View ArticleA tribute to Attenborough
In 1980, when Richard Attenborough’s plans to make a film on Mahatma Gandhi were being finalised, there was initially some opposition in the Indian media. Many argued that the National Film Development...
View ArticleThe science of non-violence
History has shown by numerous examples that in the constant duel between the forces of violence and non-violence, it is the peaceful method that triumphs Most of us long for a world in which there are...
View ArticleIndian media: Remembering Gandhi’s teachings
Media are paying tributes to independence leader Mahatma Gandhi on his 144th birth anniversary and feel his teachings remain “compellingly relevant” in present-day India. Gandhi – known as “the father...
View ArticleThe science of non-violence
Most of us long for a world in which there are no bombings, riots, wars — why then does non-violence seem so difficult to put into action? The challenge of putting non-violence into action is twofold....
View ArticleTrusteeship: business and the economics of well-being
Summary Economic reforms in India have often arrayed proponents of market-led growth against human rights advocates anxious that markets give primacy to profits over people. A quarter century after...
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