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Book & Exhibition - Mahatma
Gandhi: Images and Ideas for Non-Violence
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| Date: until October 2,
2007, India House WC2B 4NA |
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This is a beautiful book
is a remarkable collection of the images of Mahatma
Gandhi’s statues, murals, graffiti, wall paintings,
posters and puppets. Every photograph is accompanied by
Gandhi’s words of wisdom on issues like non-violence,
peace, religious harmony, social equality, rural
development, economic liberation of the poor and
women’s and animal rights. Edited by the London based
Indian broadcast journalist and the editor of NRIfm.com,
Vijay Rana, the book demonstrates how Mahatma Gandhi is
virtually being worshiped around the world and it also
presents the entire spectrum of Gandhian thought .
The United Nations has decided to observe Gandhi’s
birthday, 2 October 2007, as the UN International Day of
Non-Violence. Released to mark this historic occasion
the book shows how Mahatma Gandhi’s images and ideas
are inspiring people from all over the world to raise
their voice against the scourge of war and violence. In
many of the anti-war protests in the US, Gandhi's
portraits, puppets and placards are now prominently
displayed.
Many of these images have a remarkable story to tell.
The book has two photographs of the peaceful civil
resistance of the villagers of Bel’in in the West
Bank. Carrying the photographs of Gandhi and Mandela
they took out peaceful protests and sit-in on every
Friday and finally winning a rare victory, when the
Israeli Supreme Court ordered the government to reroute
the electric barrier - a small victory of Gandhian
methods of non-violence in the violence ridden West
Bank.
It took more than three years, thousands of emails and
hundreds of phone calls to collect these remarkable
photographs from around the world. These photographers,
many of them armatures, had a genuine reverence for
Gandhi and were kind enough to permit the use their
remarkable images. By recording the presence of Gandhi
in almost all parts of the world, they have helped to
spread the message of Gandhi, so vividly spelled out in
this book – a world without violence and a society
where justice prevailed, where poor had dignity and
where different faiths flourished in mutual respect. |
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