From nutrition expert to cleanliness advocate to environmentalist, the Father of the Nation donned various hats
What Gandhi teaches the millennials on food and fitness
Screengrab taken from the video uploaded on YouTube by Marshall Poe
The cornerstone of Mahatma Gandhi’s attitude towards food was simplicity; food for him was energy and medicine
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Need for revisiting Gandhi at this critical juncture
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought ugly realities into focus; this is when Gandhi and his thoughts become even more relevant
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Gandhi at 150: His tryst with food
He viewed food as an opportunity to allow free exchange of culture
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Gandhi at 150: He walked 18 kms a day and avoided using cars, rickshaws
He was ahead of his times in choosing sustainable transport for his tours and travel
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Gandhi on capitalism
A rare interview extracted from 'An Interview with Gandhi' by French Journalist Charles Petrasch, which he took at London in 1931 (Courtesy: Think India Quarterly).
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Gandhi as a human ecologist
Gandhi-Luthuli Chair Professor, School of Politics, Howard College, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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‘People often talk of the Gandhian model of development, but if such a model is genuinely Gandhian then it is not about development’
Mahatma Gandhi never used the words environment protection. However what he said and did makes him an environmentalist. His writings are replete with remarks on the excesses of industrial society. Political psychologist and social theorist Ashis Nandy has written extensively on Gandhi. In a freewheeling chat with Kaushik Das Gupta he spoke on Gandhi's vision of social change, his critique of industrialisation and the way movements draw inspiration from Gandhi. Edited excerpts:
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