Mahatma Gandhi

Miley Cyrus Or Mahatma Gandhi? You Decide

The Huffington Post | Kiki Von Glinow | Posted 03.30.2012

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"Miley Cyrus or Mahatma Gandhi?" is not a question we often ask ourselves when pondering aphorisms on love, life and happiness. But the 19-year-old Di...

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Andrea Stone

Mormon Proxy Baptism Was Performed On Behalf Of Mahatma Gandhi, Researcher Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.27.2012

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Mahatma Gandhi, who employed nonviolent civil disobedience to lead India to independence after more than a century of British rule, was posthumously b...

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LOOK: 485 Indian Boys Dressed As Gandhi Break Record

Posted 01.31.2012

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Nearly 500 young, bespectacled boys dressed as Mahatma Gandhi made the Guinness Book of World Records today as they participated in a peace march in K...

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Touching the Untouchables in a Rural Indian Village

Jim Luce | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Sanskrit, Middle Way, Black America, Philanthropy, Mahatma Gandhi, Bodh Gaya, Jharkhand, Bihar, Buddha, Japan, Dalits, Oiww, Martin Luther King, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Jim Luce, Hindu Social Life, Social Responsibility, Prince Siddhartha, International Development, Burakumin, India, Roma, Orphans International Worldwide, Harijan, Dumri, World News
Jim Luce

I have been privileged to visit two "Untouchable" villages while here on pilgrimage in India -- the first about four miles outside Bodh Gaya in Bihar province, and the other about four hours south of here, in the village of Dumri in Jharkhand province.

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The Bhagavad Gita

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Russian, Bible, Human Evolution, Terrorism, Equanimity, Upliftment, Quran, Mahatma Gandhi, Bhagavad Gita, Non-Violence, Spirituality, World News
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The fact is that it is not the scriptures that inflict terrorism; it is the misinterpretation of an ignorant and stressed mind which justifies their actions quoting scriptures.

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When a Great Teacher Dies... and Lives On

Richard Walden | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Madame Bovary, Culver City High School, Mahatma Gandhi, Teaching, Patricia Logsdon, Power of Women, Education News
Richard Walden

My 10th grade World History teacher, Patricia Logsdon, died this week at age 88. She spent 40+ years teaching at Culver City (CA) High School. Normal...

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Gandhi Paved The Way For The Social Resistance We See Today

Philip Glass | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Occupy Main Street, Satyagraha, Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Non-Violence, Non-Violent Resistance, Occupy Wall Street, Culture News
Philip Glass

Let no group or party exploit what many of us see as the growth of ignorance and indifference in society. Policies that lead to short-sighted political and economic gain will be easily seen for what they are.

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Occupy Planet Earth: The Great Rising Up

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Unity, Arab Spring, Peter Finch, Consciousness, Howard Beale, We Are the 99 Percent, Occupy Wall Street, Mahatma Gandhi, Politics News
Dr. Judith Rich

We are witnessing the birth of a new paradigm for mankind, one that is a game-changer for the planet. What is unfolding before our very eyes, ears, hearts and minds, is the awakening of our collective consciousness.

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How the Arab Spring Sprung From a Nonviolent Source

Michael Shank | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: National Peace Academy, Egypt, Khudai Khidmatgar, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, Asfandyar Wali Khan, Dalai Lama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Clausewitz, Arsalan Iftikhar, Islamic Pacificism, Pakistan, Gene Sharp, King Abdullah, Nonviolent Protest, Mahatma Gandhi, Koran, North Africa, Michael Shank, Representative Peter King, Arab Spring, Martin Luther King Jr, Awami National Party, Middle East, Pashtun, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Sheik Jawdat Said, Khyber-Pakhtunkwa, World News
Michael Shank

The propensity in the U.S. to conflate Islam with violence precludes the possibility of nonviolent Muslim protest motivated by an internal incentive, be it secular or religious. However, the concept of nonviolence is not foreign or new to Muslims.

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How Would Gandhi Respond?

Claire Amber | Posted 11.16.2011

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Claire Amber

I've recently started getting into Mahatma Gandhi's work, visiting the history of this peace activist's life.

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Making Peace with 9/11

Claire Amber | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Experiment, Fearmongering, Fear, Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, 911, Ego, 9/11, Lynne McTaggart, Mahatma Gandhi, Horror, Peace, Peace Intention Experiment, Intention, Mohandas Gandhi, Elephant Journal, Inner Peace, Politics News
Claire Amber

I'm sure you remember this image vividly: the twin towers of the World Trade Center in flames, the two jets having crashed into them after being hijac...

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Oldest Tech, Newest Hero?

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Egypt, Sms, Anti-Corruption, Tunisia, Social Media, Citizen Action, Libya, Alan W. Silberberg, India, Mahatma Gandhi, Anna Hazare, Government 2.0, Technology News
Alan W. Silberberg

Due to a combination of demographics, technology and tradition, the biggest social media in India is not one of those we think of usually.

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Truth, Opinion, and Jesus

Alexander Goerlach | Posted 10.21.2011

Read More: Religion, Martin Luther King, Charles Darwin, Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosophy and Religion, Christianity, Truth and Action, Objective Truth, Religion News
Alexander Goerlach

Can we talk about objective, irrevocable truth? Or merely about claims to truth that are contested by the statements of others? The answer has massive implications for our idea of man.

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When Loyalty To Family Conflicts With Loyalty To God

Eric Felten | Posted 07.14.2011

Read More: St. Paul, God and Friendship, Mahatma Gandhi, Loyalty to God, Religious Extremism, Thomas of Kempis, Loyalty the Vexing Virtue, George Orwell, Virtue of Loyalty, Religion News
Eric Felten

As attractive a moral strategy as it may be to always put God first, does loyalty to God really mean casting aside every other commitment we have?

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Whose Gandhi Is He Anyway?

Sandip Roy | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Bisexuality, Homosexuality, Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Lelyveld, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India, Andrew Sullivan, Books News
Sandip Roy

I think instead of fighting over Gandhi's "Vaseline and cotton wool memories," India should just levy a Gandhi-tax.

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The Dharmic American Community Answers Obama's Interfaith Challenge

Anju Bhargava | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Hindu American Seva, President's Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, Festivals of Seva, Dharmic Americans, Hindu Americans, Religious Tolerance, President Obama, Mahatma Gandhi, Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, American Veda, Religion News
Anju Bhargava

As new Americans, while we are transplanting traditions and creating a new identity, we are blending "best practices" pulled from East and West. We have much to strengthen America.

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The Gandhi None of Us Knew

Irene Monroe | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: India, South Africa, Civil Rights Movement, Gay Rights, Martin Luther King, Gays and Lesbians, Apartheid, Gay, Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Barack Obama, Gay Issues, Books News
Irene Monroe

How did the public get so hoodwinked by the divinity of Gandhi? The deification of Gandhi intentionally eclipsed Gandhi the real man.

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New Bio Reportedly Depicts Gandhi As Bisexual, Racist

Posted 05.28.2011

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He is known as a kindly father figure in India, but Mahatma Gandhi was also a racist bisexual who left his wife for a male Jewish bodybuilder, accordi...

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Killing Killers -- Okay With You?

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Governor Pat Quinn, Diane Dimond, Death Penalty Pro and Con, Executions in the U.S. Since 1976, Diane Dimond?S Weekly Column, ?€œDeath Penalty Debate Renewed?, Statistics on Death Penalty States, Governor George Ryan, Murder Victim?S Families and the Death Penalty, Mahatma Gandhi, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, ?€œEye for an Eye?, Death Penalty Abolition, Politics News
Diane Dimond

Illinois is a perfect microcosm of our decade's long national debate and flip-flop on the death penalty. Should the United States be in the business of killing killers?

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'They Don't Make Movies About Boring People:' Two New Documentaries Tackle AIDS, Government

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Title IX, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, Julian Shaw, Glass Ceiling, Aids Education, Patsy Takemoto, Desmond Tutu, P.W. Botha, Nelson Mandela, Golda Meir, Nancy Pelosi, Malcolm X, Evita Bezuidenhout, Richard Gephardt, Bella Abzug, Pieter-Dirk Yus, Dame Edna, Thabo Mbeki, Hiv, Mahatma Gandhi, Roy Cohn, Harvey Milk, Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority, George Carlin, Kinsey Sicks, Martin Luther King, Sarah Palin, Franklin Odo, Kimberlee Bassford, Patsy Mink, Film, Arts News
George Heymont

Imagine someone with the bluntness of the George Carlin, the wardrobe of the Kinsey Sicks, and the following of Dame Edna and you'll get an idea of what kind of social catalyst Pieter-Dirk Uys became for South Africans.

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Four Practical Steps to Being the Change You Want to See

Lee Stranahan | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Self-Esteem, Mahatma Gandhi, Self Help, Empowerment, Inspiration, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Healthy Living News
Lee Stranahan

We know that Gandhi said to "be the change that you want to see in the world". Great advice, but how exactly can you do it? I spoke with licensed therapist and author Derek Rydall for some practical tips.

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Choosing Naivete About Egypt

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Egypt, Social Justice, American Exceptionalism, Dignity, Democracy, Mahatma Gandhi, God, New York, America, Foreign Policy, Education, Revolution, India, Teachers, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Separation of Church and State, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

If Americans are so "exceptional," do we need to examine whether or not the stated values of American society are being lived at all?

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Making Clicks Count -- A New Way To Shop Online

The Huffington Post | Abby Wendle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ebay, Switzerland, Young Global Leaders, Shopping for Charity, Berkeley, Davos, Inc., Greatest Person of the Day, World of Good, Mahatma Gandhi, Online Shopping, Priya Hija, Fair Trade, World Economic Forum, Impact News

This week, we're profiling the Young Global Leaders attending the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Shopaholic and do-g...

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Revamping Education: Taking Pride in Non-Violence

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meditation, Yoga, Non Violence, Mahatma Gandhi, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandella, Education News
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

As the children and young people in the United States get ready to deal with the challenges of a new decade, we need to revisit the education system and create an environment where learning is more interesting and joyful.

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Marc Parent and the Art of Twitter Activism

2morrowknight | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Twitter Powerhouses, Twitter Activism, Activism, Politics, Social Networking, Twitter, Marc Parent, Twitter News, Susan B. Anthony, Policy, Maegan Carberry, Political News, Technology, World News, Mahatma Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, Dr. Martin Luther King, Technology News
2morrowknight

Marc Parent, one of the most celebrated observers and activists on Twitter today, dedicates his thought-provoking feed to shining a spotlight on that history, and provides great links that are often the subject of great debate.

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