Give Peace a Chance, Adarsh Baji’s art showcase at Kalakriti, Hyderabad, heralds the power of Mahatma Gandhi as a global icon

Give Peace a Chance, Adarsh Baji’s art showcase at Kalakriti, Hyderabad, heralds the power of Mahatma Gandhi as a global icon

Adarsh Baji’s painting presents a satirical take on Gandhi as a global icon when the media was at a nascent stage | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Give Peace Another Chance, a series of artworks by Guntur-bred and now Vadodara-based artist Adarsh Baji, attempts to make viewers pause and rediscover Gandhi, ahead of his 154th birth […]

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Give Peace a Chance, Adarsh Baji’s art showcase at Kalakriti, Hyderabad, heralds the power of Mahatma Gandhi as a global icon

Give Peace Another Chance, Adarsh Baji’s art showcase at Kalakriti, Hyderabad, heralds the power of Mahatma Gandhi as a global icon

Adarsh Baji’s painting presents a satirical take on Gandhi as a global icon when the media was at a nascent stage | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Give Peace Another Chance, a series of artworks by Guntur-bred and now Vadodara-based artist Adarsh Baji, attempts to make viewers pause and rediscover Gandhi, ahead of his 154th birth […]

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Tushar Gandhi rubbishes Manoj Sinha’s claim that Mahatma didn’t have a single university degree

Tushar Gandhi rubbishes Manoj Sinha’s claim that Mahatma didn’t have a single university degree

Mahatma Gandhi’s great-grandson and author Tushar Gandhi. File | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Mahatma Gandhi’s great-grandson Tushar Gandhi has rubbished Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha’s claim that the Father of the Nation did not have a single university degree. “M. K. Gandhi passed 2 Matrics 1 from Alfred High School Rajkot, 2nd […]

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‘Gandhi Godse – Ek Yudh’ trailer: What if Gandhi survived Godse’s assassination attempt?

‘Gandhi Godse – Ek Yudh’ trailer: What if Gandhi survived Godse’s assassination attempt?

Deepak Antani and Chinmay Mandlekar as Mahatma Gandhi and Nathuram Godse, respectively, in ‘Gandhi Godse – Ek Yudh’ | Photo Credit: PVR Pictures The trailer of filmmaker Rajkumar Santoshi’s upcoming historical drama Gandhi Godse – Ek Yudh was released by the makers on Wednesday. The three-minute-long trailer first shows the events leading up to Naduram […]

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Hansal Mehta to commence filming on series ‘Gandhi’ later this year

Hansal Mehta to commence filming on series ‘Gandhi’ later this year

Director Hansal Mehta | Photo Credit: SUDERSHAN V Filmmaker Hansal Mehta has revealed he will start shooting for his much-anticipated series Gandhi in late 2023. Backed by Applause Entertainment, the series is based on historian and author Ramachandra Guha’s two books — Gandhi before India and Gandhi-The Years that Changed the World. “I have more […]

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Pratik Gandhi: Blessed to play Mahatma Gandhi and Jyotirao Phule on-screen

Pratik Gandhi: Blessed to play Mahatma Gandhi and Jyotirao Phule on-screen

Actor Pratik Gandhi says he is looking forward to playing Mahatma Gandhi and Jyotirao Phule in separate projects and believes these important historical figures will allow him to go through a “tricky transformation journey”. “Phule”, written and directed by Ananth Mahadevan, features Pratik Gandhi in the role of the social activist and reformer Mahatma Phule […]

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Jitish Kallat’s manual of instructions | The artist returns to Chemould with ‘Otherwhile’

Jitish Kallat’s manual of instructions | The artist returns to Chemould with ‘Otherwhile’

Jitish  Kallat’s ‘Epicycles’ at Chemould Prescott Road. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Weaving one’s way through a Jitish Kallat exhibition affords a staggering range of visuals: a mechanical engineering workshop replete with lathe machines and high-speed steel tools, wide canvases with in-line drawings reminiscent of a master of architecture studies, images collapsing into each other […]

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Mahatma Gandhi’s teachings all the more relevant  today, says Director of the Centre for Policy Studies Prasanna Kumar

Mahatma Gandhi’s teachings all the more relevant today, says Director of the Centre for Policy Studies Prasanna Kumar

‘He should not be seen as a person belonging to any particular faith as he had always believed in the equality and harmony of all religions’ ‘He should not be seen as a person belonging to any particular faith as he had always believed in the equality and harmony of all religions’ The teachings of […]

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How Gandhi’s moral vision could be a critical catalyst for capitalism

How Gandhi’s moral vision could be a critical catalyst for capitalism

Gandhi’s visions of the trusteeship model, ahimsa, and self-denial could be the corrective course that our economies urgently need Gandhi’s visions of the trusteeship model, ahimsa, and self-denial could be the corrective course that our economies urgently need “A time is coming when those who are in the mad rush today of multiplying their wants, […]

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VCK, CPI and CPI(M) to organise human chain demonstration against RSS march

VCK, CPI and CPI(M) to organise human chain demonstration against RSS march

“RSS have decided to plant the seeds of hatred and have planned to cause violence in Tamil Nadu”, says Mr. Thirumavalavan. “RSS have decided to plant the seeds of hatred and have planned to cause violence in Tamil Nadu”, says Mr. Thirumavalavan. In a counter to Rashtriya Swayasevak Sangh’s decision to organise processions in close […]

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