Posts Tagged ‘ Mahatma Gandhi ’

The Global Financial Meltdown and Gandhian Philosophy

Under the auspices of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Professor Veena Sikri delivered a lecture on the abovementioned subject on Monday, 22nd June 2009. Professor Sikri is Chairperson, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and a former Indian High Commissioner to Malaysia and Bangladesh. Formed in 2006, the Mahatma Gandhi Centre, Colombo, [...]



Dreams and Beyond

She leaves the reader free to pursue his or her own convictions while providing points of entry into alternative ways of thought
Manjula Padmanabhan
This is an exceptionally well-written and sensibly argued book about that most insubstantial of human experiences, the world of dreams. The author offers a selection of theories and case-histories concerning this twilight realm, [...]



Nadine Gordimer in Delhi

Malashri Lal
The metropolitan and literary aficionados of New Delhi were eagerly awaiting the visit of Nobel laureate, Dr Nadine Gordimer, specially after the newspaper reports of her programmes in Mumbai and Kolkata in November 2008.  Invited by the Ministry of External Affairs of the Govt. of India to deliver a lecture in a series for [...]



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