Comments on: October 2 will be the global non-violence day http://writingcave.com/october-2-will-be-the-global-non-violence-day/ Thoughts on politics, society, literature, philosophy, social media, and pretty much everything else Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Satyajeet Maharana http://writingcave.com/october-2-will-be-the-global-non-violence-day/#comment-1773 Satyajeet Maharana Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:54:28 +0000 http://www.writingcave.com/october-2-will-be-the-global-non-violence-day/#comment-1773 this is an good co-incidence between Gandhiji's birthday and non-violence day.perhaps Gandhiji has done this....... this is an good co-incidence between Gandhiji’s birthday and non-violence day.perhaps Gandhiji has done this…….

]]> By: sarah mathews http://writingcave.com/october-2-will-be-the-global-non-violence-day/#comment-1772 sarah mathews Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:59:48 +0000 http://www.writingcave.com/october-2-will-be-the-global-non-violence-day/#comment-1772 i copmletely agree with all of these staements...we deserve world peace and justice in all comunities all around the world! i copmletely agree with all of these staements…we deserve world peace and justice in all comunities all around the world!

]]> By: ellen http://writingcave.com/october-2-will-be-the-global-non-violence-day/#comment-1771 ellen Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:57:14 +0000 http://www.writingcave.com/october-2-will-be-the-global-non-violence-day/#comment-1771 very nice very nice

]]> By: kumar http://writingcave.com/october-2-will-be-the-global-non-violence-day/#comment-1770 kumar Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:24:05 +0000 http://www.writingcave.com/october-2-will-be-the-global-non-violence-day/#comment-1770 October 2nd was the 136th Gandhi Jayanti, the celebration of Gandhi’s birthday. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 and is most famous for leading India to independence through a nonviolent revolution. A follower of Tolstoy’s philosophy of nonviolence, Gandhi went on to become one of the most famous and important persons in modern history. Though we should celebrate this hero of peace every day, his birthday is a good enough time to remember him, what he stood for, and what he accomplished. Happy Gandhi jayanthi October 2nd was the 136th Gandhi Jayanti, the celebration of Gandhi’s birthday.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 and is most famous for leading India

to independence through a nonviolent revolution. A follower of Tolstoy’s philosophy

of nonviolence, Gandhi went on to become one of the most famous and important

persons in modern history. Though we should celebrate this hero of peace every day,

his birthday is a good enough time to remember him, what he stood for, and what he

accomplished.

Happy Gandhi jayanthi

]]> By: Akshay Bakaya http://writingcave.com/october-2-will-be-the-global-non-violence-day/#comment-1769 Akshay Bakaya Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:09:25 +0000 http://www.writingcave.com/october-2-will-be-the-global-non-violence-day/#comment-1769 The idea of Ahimsa Day, International Day of Non-Violence is an initiative of an English language class of mainly Japanese and Korean children in Paris, working on Attenborough's film 'Gandhi'. This proposal was taken to the 2004 Bombay WSF by Peace Nobel laureate, Shirin Ebadi of Iran, and supported by Romila Thapar, Asma Jahangir, Noam Chomsky, K.R. Narayanan, Immanuel Wallerstein, etc. Krishna Kumar (now director NCERT) had predicted that this call will take 3 years to be properly heard... Hard News, the Indian associate of the international French monthly Le Monde Diplomatique, supported the initiative. Editor Sanjay Kapoor discussed it with Mohsina Kidwai, General Secretary of the Indian National Congress, who took it to party president Sonia Gandhi just before the January 2007 Satyagraha convention where archbishob Desmond Tutu on January 30th formally proposed that a call for an ahimsa day (on 2nd October) be sent to the UN. We can speculate about the wish to transform the earlier initiative into a huge but harmless birthday bash emceed by ministers and diplomats, the opposite of what it is conceived to be in the Non-Violence Manifesto, or more pathetically, a cause for nationalist hoots of victory at the UN (over whom? Pakistan? see Hindustan Times Non-violence day - Victory for India)). Maybe a "Christmas" bash (2nd October, day of a holy birth?) was seen as a better bet than 30th January (day of crucifixion), especially if chidren are to participate ? Preferring the day of Gandhi's assassination by a Hindu nationalist will uncomfortably focus worldwide attention on the latters' admiration for the Mahatma's assassin Godse, editor of "Hindu Rashtra" (see Arnaud Mandagaran's film on Gandhi's assassins, and search: Hard News Purushottam Agrawal - an Ahimsa day, But When? Also search : Ahimsa Day, Shirin Ebadi, Non-Violence Manifesto. Also see FAQ on Ahimsa Online. The idea of Ahimsa Day, International Day of Non-Violence is an initiative of an English language class of mainly Japanese and Korean children in Paris, working on Attenborough’s film ‘Gandhi’. This proposal was taken to the 2004 Bombay WSF by Peace Nobel laureate, Shirin Ebadi of Iran, and supported by Romila Thapar, Asma Jahangir, Noam Chomsky, K.R. Narayanan, Immanuel Wallerstein, etc. Krishna Kumar (now director NCERT) had predicted that this call will take 3 years to be properly heard…

Hard News, the Indian associate of the international French monthly Le Monde Diplomatique, supported the initiative. Editor Sanjay Kapoor discussed it with Mohsina Kidwai, General Secretary of the Indian National Congress, who took it to party president Sonia Gandhi just before the January 2007 Satyagraha convention where archbishob Desmond Tutu on January 30th formally proposed that a call for an ahimsa day (on 2nd October) be sent to the UN.

We can speculate about the wish to transform the earlier initiative into a huge but harmless birthday bash emceed by ministers and diplomats, the opposite of what it is conceived to be in the Non-Violence Manifesto, or more pathetically, a cause for nationalist hoots of victory at the UN (over whom? Pakistan? see Hindustan Times Non-violence day – Victory for India)).

Maybe a “Christmas” bash (2nd October, day of a holy birth?) was seen as a better bet than 30th January (day of crucifixion), especially if chidren are to participate ? Preferring the day of Gandhi’s assassination by a Hindu nationalist will uncomfortably focus worldwide attention on the latters’ admiration for the Mahatma’s assassin Godse, editor of “Hindu Rashtra” (see Arnaud Mandagaran’s film on Gandhi’s assassins, and search: Hard News Purushottam Agrawal – an Ahimsa day, But When?

Also search : Ahimsa Day, Shirin Ebadi, Non-Violence Manifesto. Also see FAQ on Ahimsa Online.

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