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Mahatma Gandhi

Malaysian PM to visit India

Malaysian Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim will pay a state visit to India from 19 to 21 August at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Educationist

In the words of young Zakir Husain: “It was the first conscious decision of my life. Perhaps the only one I have ever taken. The rest of my life has but flowed from it.” What the new lecturer at Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh referred to was his crucial decision in 1919- 20 to respond to Mahatma Gandhi’s appeal for non-cooperation.

Salt of the Earth

Long before the Salt Satyagraha was launched by Mahatma Gandhi from Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad on 12 March 1930, there were popular uprisings, hunger-strikes in jails, workers' strikes and public processions denouncing the ruthless colonial rule subjugating the country.

Non-violence the best path for Palestine

Apath of non-violent struggle can often be the best forward when the cause is deeply rooted in justice and there is widespread recognition of this being so.

Apartheid Bond

Even Mahatma Gandhi, who had his own tryst with apartheid in South Africa and who sympathized with the Jews owing to the unprecedented pain and persecution they faced at the hands of Nazis, was able to nuance his views on the Israel-Palestine issue with the comment, ‘Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English, and France to the French‘