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discourse community devoted to exploring and examining knowledge per se. It is,
hence, imperative that we keep pushing the envelope pertaining to the ideas we
celebrate, the operational methodology we employ, and the diversity of discourse
avenues we open up. Essaying further in the same direction, we have envisaged a
score of newer ways in which will operate. While the different sessions of
follow different formats, it has been the tradition at to organize special
talks by eminent scholars from diverse knowledge domains. In sync with this
tradition, it is our sheer pleasure to invite you to the Special Discourse, on
‘Gandhi’s Approach to His World’ by Mr. Tushar Gandhi, great-grandson of the
Mahatma and Founder President of Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, India. As the
second decade of the 21st century is rife with conflicts, protests
and uprisings, it is profoundly significant to deliberate as to, what would
have been Gandhi’s response to such a world? The reason why Gandhi is to be
revisited is that Gandhi’s responses to his world form the crux of being Gandhi
and what we can learn from him. He did not imitate or withdraw. He neither got
carried away by fashionable ideas of his day nor remained inflexible in his ideas.
Significantly enough, he weighed each idea of his day against the cherished
tenets in history and particularly, Indian culture and heritage. For the
unprecedented problems and challenges of his times, he formulated unique responses.
More than ever before, in the present era of subtle intellectual deceptions by
world forces and duping of the masses in the name of apparently nice things,
Gandhi’s approach to his world is the site of lessons to be learnt-to be sceptical,
to be watchful, to be faithful, not to religion but reason, not to politics but
intellectual purity of ideas-political or non-political, to be alive to the
possibility of redefining the terms of the world he lived in. It is these
qualities that make him infinitely valuable to us, our times. But we shall not
benefit from his insights, unless we fully comprehend Gandhi’s Approach to His
World...
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The schedule of Special Discourse is
as follows:
Discourse Theme: Gandhi’s Approach
to His World
Speaker: Mr. Tushar Gandhi Great-grandson
of the Mahatma and Founder President of
Date: November 17, 2013
Time: 10.30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.
Venue: Station-e Language Lab,
2-Silver Sand, Opp. Big Bazaar, 150 Ft
Ring Road, Rajkot.
We solicit your esteemed presence at
this special session of
.
With thanks and regards,
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