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<p>Updated March 5, 2009</p><p>Mohandas K. Gandhi was a Hindu leader in India’s quest for independence from Britain and was a prime apostle of nonviolence — “passive resistance” — as a ...
When Martin Luther King Jr. visited the villa in Mumbai, India, where Mohandas Gandhi stayed in the 1920s, he had a special request: He wanted to spend the night in Gandhi's bedroom. It was 1959 ...
This week on "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear welcomes teacher and organizer Terrence Rynne, who says resistance may require offending the powers that be.
A bronze-nickel statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi that sailed from India to the U.S. almost two decades ago is on the move again. From its initial arrival in Norfolk, Virginia ...
Host Eric Weiner talks to Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas Gandhi, about whether the Mahatma's ideas on nonviolence are still relevant in a post-September 11 world. Arun Gandhi heads the M.K ...
“I do not accept the claim of saintliness,” said Mohandas Gandhi in 1920, when he had not yet been given the spiritual title of “mahatma.” “I am prone to as many weaknesses as you are ...
A statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi was installed on the University of Ghana campus in Accra, Ghana, in 2016. The statue has now been removed from its plinth.
A statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi in Accra, Ghana in September 2016. AP After a wave of opposition and a petition drive that cited views deemed racist and offensive against ...
Mohandas Gandhi. Orbis Books, $18 (191pp) ISBN 978-1-57075-432-6 Orbis adds to its Modern Spiritual Masters series with Mohandas Gandhi: Essential Writings, edited and introduced by John Dear.