One hundred years ago the Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi took a boat from London to South Africa. Over ten days he wrote a long essay that for the first time melded his ideas about ...

“The purpose of creation is that divinity be awakened through it and bestiality be punished, that the auspicious wins and the ominous loses. In his eyes, anything that is inauspicious, not beautiful, ...

As the author observes, this is less an essay on Gandhian political philosophy than an effort to find "by abstracting from the Gandhian experiments a theoretical key to the problem of social and ...

The world observed the International Non-violence Day on October 2 this year, on the occasion of the 140th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi -- the apostle of peace, non-violence, ethics and ...

Mahatma Gandhi is considered as one of the revolutionary thinkers of modern India along with Tagore and Swami Vivekananda. He was a ‘practical idealist’ and his philosophy of education was a pragmatic ...

The most despicable philosopher in the West finds a new reason to put down Gandhi. It’s crucial to see violence which is done repeatedly to keep the things the way they are. In that sense, Gandhi was ...

Gandhi during the 1930 Salt March. Source: Scanned by Yann (talk) / Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain The principle of ahimsa (non-injury or non-violence) runs through all Indian religions, including ...

PM Navin Ramgoolam will be in New Delhi for an international conference in January to talk on Peace, non-violence and empowerment, Gandhian Philosophy in the 21st Century. He and opposition leaders ...

The audience at Kirti Mandap in Gandhi Smriti—Mahatma Gandhi spent the last 144 days of his life here—broke into applause as Aayush Kukreja, who portrayed the character of Gandhi, proclaimed on stage, ...