Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Responsible Journalism


 I have taken up journalism not for its sake but merely as an aid to what I have conceived to be my mission in life. My mission is to teach by example and precept under severe restraint the use of the matchless weapon of satyagraha which is direct corollary of non-violence and truth. I am anxious, indeed I am impatient, to demonstrate that there is no remedy for the many ills of life save that of non-violence. It is a solvent strong enough to melt the stoniest heart. To be true to my faith, therefore, I may not write in anger or malice. I may not write idly. I may not write merely to excite passion. The reader can have no idea of the restraint I have to exercise from week to week in the choice of topics and my vocabulary. It is a training for me. It enables me to peep into myself and make discoveries of my weaknesses. Often my vanity dictates a smart expression or my anger a harsh adjective. It is a terrible ordeal but a fine exercise to remove these weeds.
-  M.K.Gandhi,  Young India, 2-7-1925

Friday, August 17, 2012


Invitation to the lecture on
'Mahatma Gandhi's Philosophy Today : Nonviolence  and Transforming Our Lives and the World'
by Prof. Douglas Allen*

on
23rd August, 2012 at 3.00 p.m. 
at Mani Bhavan, 19 Laburnum Road, Gamdevi, Mumbai 400007.


*Prof. Allen is Professor of Philosophy, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA. His most recent books are Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade, Comparative Philosophy and Religion in Times of Terror and The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for Twenty-First Century.  Prof. Allen is in India on a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research  Fellowship at Mani Bhavan to do research on 'Mahatma Gandhi and Violence, Terrorism and the Contemporary World.'
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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Mahatma Gandhi's Speech on Quit India movement




Mahatma Gandhi's Speech on Quit India , August 8, 1942 . To read please click on the link below. Thank you.


http://www.gandhi-manibhavan.org/gandhicomesalive/speech6.htm