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Mahatma Gandhi

Chambal issues one more call for peace

It was over five decades back in 1972 that hundreds of dacoits, or baagis as they are called locally, voluntarily surrendered in Chambal valley of central India as part of a wider and inspirational social initiative for significant, beneficial, and durable social change achieved by non-violence.

Salt March and the birth of mass disobedience

In the early morning of 6 April 1930, on the quiet shores of the Arabian Sea at Dandi in Gujarat, Mahatma Gandhi bent down, picked up a handful of salt, and quietly defied the law of the British Empire.

A life in pursuit of human dignity

On 17 February, the world lost one of its most resonant voices for equality - Reverend Je sse L . Jackson, Sr., who passed away at the age of 84.

Paying tribute to my hero

I often wonder who among all the great men I have read about in history books or seen in the news during my lifetime I consider to be my hero: someone who not only commands my admiration but inspires me to emulate him/her as a role model.