In praising parts of
M.K. Gandhi's An Autobiography or the Story of My Experiments with Truth, Naipaul suggests that "the writer is sufficiently far away from the events he is describing for the matter to be well sifted in his own mind." It is a distance that makes for a "narrative" that is "direct," "wonderfully simple," and "ordered" (p.
"If I preach against the modern life of sensual enjoyment, and urge all men and women to go back to the simple life epitomised in the charka, I do so because I know without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our descent to a state lower than brutality."
M.K. Gandhi, Young India (1921, 228-9)
Elaborating the leadership of
M.K. Gandhi, the author writes that M.K.
-- Arun Gandhi, the grandson of pacifist Mahatma Gandhi, was forced to resign as president of the institute he founded in 1991, the
M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at the University of Rochester, for saying that Israel and Jews are "the biggest players" in a global culture of violence.
CUTLINE: Arun Gandhi, the fifth grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, is founder of the
M.K. Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence in Memphis, Tenn.
In addition to the entries from S-Z, v.4 contains a glossary, an annotated bibliography, a very thorough index (104 pages) and a selection of primary sources, including two edicts of King Ashoka, and selections from the autobiography of Mahatma
M.K. Gandhi, from Hindu texts, and from the Upanishads.
Gandhi and cofounder of the
M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in Memphis, Tennessee, and Ann E.
M.K. Gandhi had made his first gesture of resistance and reconciliation on 7 June 1893 in the obscure railway station at Pietermaritzburg in South Africa; it is one of the great stories of the Commonwealth.
The Advocate caught up with the 67-year-old Gandhi, executive director of the Memphis, Tenn.-based
M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, as he prepared to join other civil rights leaders and hundreds of volunteers in protest of the United Methodist Church doctrine that states "homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching." Despite the protest, during which Gandhi and nearly 200 others were arrested, the United Methodist Church voted to maintain its stand against homosexuality, along with its prohibitions on same-sex union ceremonies and non-celibate gay clergy.
Gandhi, founder of the
M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in Tennessee, also met with Okinawa Gov.
Ironically, the present-day heroes of Chauri Chaura are leaders like
M.K. Gandhi, Motilal Nehru, and Indira Gandhi!
Nehru's insistence on unity amid diversity weathered the assassination of
M.K. Gandhi by a right-wing Hindu fanatic and the reluctance of some princely states to join the new Indian state could not ride out the demand for a reorganization of states on a linguistic basis starting in 1956.
Birla was to
M.K. Gandhi. Sarojini Naidu touched the rotten core of subcontinental politics when she said famously that it cost a lot of money to keep Gandhi in poverty.
