Tag: Non Violence

Here’s Buddha Purnima, a celebration of sublime human values

Buddha Purnima is not only a time for Buddhists to celebrate their faith, but is also an opportunity for people of all faiths to come together and learn about the teachings of the Buddha.

May 5, 2023

BJP questions Rahul’s conviction in truth and non-violence

The saffron party’s reaction came in response to the Congress leader’s statement that his religion was based on truth and non-violence. He had made the statement after a Surat court convicted him in a defamation case.

March 23, 2023

Gandhi’s ideas need wider acceptance

Even in a world torn by many violent conflicts, statistics year after year show that the toll of everyday violence is even higher

September 30, 2021

Myth and Mahatma

The biggest myth about non-violent action is the idea that Gandhi invented it and he is often called 'the father non-violence'. Well, he did raise ahimsa action to a level never achieved before him, but he was not its author or inventor

November 25, 2020

Mahatma’s medical legacy

Gandhi's main arguments against medical science are: (1) it attaches undue importance to the body rather than the soul, which is infinitely more real than the body; (2) it is inconsistent with non-violence, partly on account of vivisection and partly because the modern medicines either contain or involve the taking of animal fat, alcohol, meat and other 'forbidden' food; (3) it is expensive and, therefore, inaccessible to the poor; and (4) it is inseparably linked with machinery, industrialization and modern civilization in general which Gandhi rejects in its entirety.

July 1, 2020

Concerned about increasing violence, utter disregard for human life: Pranab Mukherjee

Mukherjee's statement comes after BJP’s ideological and organisation wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat proclaimed that India will become a Hindu Rashtra and denied cases of mob-lynching calling it a “western” idea.

October 23, 2019

Kalinga literary festival to recall Gandhi’s ‘idea of India’

Among other highlights will be the story-telling session "Dastan-E-Mantoiyat" by Syed Shadab Hussain and Meera Rizvi and the screening of Oscar-nominated director Ashvin Kumar's "No Fathers In Kashmir".

July 2, 2019

Calling him Mahatma makes Gandhi irrelevant: Prof Douglas Allen

In an interview to thestatesman.com, Gandhian philosophy scholar Prof Douglas Allen talks about his new book, Gandhi After 9/11, dispels many notions about the 'father of the nation', and says Mahatma Gandhi even believed in using force when left with no non-violent option

April 25, 2019

Mahatma Gandhi and surgery of the soul

It was a revolutionary principle of realising ‘Truth through non-violence and revalidate non-violence through Truth.’

April 13, 2019

UN chief hails Gandhi’s principle of non-violence, denounces terrorism

Ahead of his visit, Guterres had said that India was an “important partner” of the UN in countering terrorism and preventing violent extremism.

October 2, 2018

There are no Muslim or Christian terrorists: Dalai Lama

There are no Muslim or Christian terrorists because terrorists are no more religious once they embrace terror, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Wednesday. “People cease to be Muslim, Christian or any group the moment they became terrorists,” the Dalai Lama said at a public reception here on the second day of a...

October 19, 2017

The Gentle Colossus~II

What, then, should be the real strategy for maintaining and continuing the spirit of goodness? Gandhi has a very clear and distinct answer: “As long as you derive inner health and comfort from anything, you should keep it. If you were to give it up in a mood of self-sacrifice or out of a stern...

October 3, 2017