It is 75 years since India became its own democracy, free from foreign control
Now turned into a museum, the house where he lived in the eastern town of Phoenix and which also housed his newspaper is falling into disrepair
Inanda heritage route museum and the Phoenix Settlement that Gandhi founded to uplift the community no longer have any major donors
I felt curious grief, gut-wrenching sadness at the passing of a woman I did not know and had never me
Democratic countries that are committed to human rights must take decisive action to pressure India to quell its abuses and protect minority communities.
The current dispensation is becoming a majoritarian Hindu state as Narendra Modi promotes hatred and intolerance of Muslims and minorities
Denis Mukwege is a medic based in the DRC, and he and his staff have helped thousands of victims abused in its prolonged and bloody wars.
The Indian prime minister invokes peace icons across the globe, but is yet to condemn the acts of one of his key ministers
The United States president-elect says the accolade means a lot to him.
Both are icons of peace, both resisted oppression, both fought for their belief. Mandela took to violence and Mahatma had to shed his caste prism.
Mahatma Gandhi’s pacifist philosophy inspired many, but his remarks about black South Africans mean his legacy is not beyond reproach.
On his 146th birthday anniversary, Verashni Pillay reflects on Mahatma Gandhi’s complicated legacy for a country whose majority he did not champion.
While there is better access to a quality life, let us not forget the sacrificies that made our freedom possible and pretend there’s no more to do.
Historian Faisal Devji unearths some unusual and unlikely links in South Asia’s fraught history.
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The Indian government has bought a collection of letters, papers and photos relating to Mahatma Gandhi ahead of its planned auction in London.
Indian activist Anna Hazare, whose hunger strike in August attracted public support, held a one-day fast demanding government to tackle corruption.
An Indian state on Wednesday banned a new biography of Mahatma Gandhi which allegedly describes the Indian independence leader as a racist bisexual.
A United States author has dismissed claims his new book on Mahatma Gandhi alleged that India’s independence leader was a racist bisexual.
Mahatma Gandhi’s former home in a quiet Johannesburg suburb has attracted a flurry of potential buyers, the current owner said on Friday.
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/ 24 September 2008
Niren Tolsi reflects on a meeting of minds across the Indian Ocean.
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/ 4 September 2008
Niren Tolsi yawns his way through an exhibition
that fails to interrogate Gandhi’s legacy.
South Africa is honouring her for helping it overcome the legacy of apartheid, but Linda Biehl says she is simply doing what any parent would after the death of a child: trying to find meaning in loss. She was speaking on the eve of a ceremony at which President Thabo Mbeki is to grant her one of the country’s highest honours.
When the Dalai Lama sat down on Saturday with Richard Gere and Robert Thurman, father of actor Uma and a United States professor of Buddhism, it was supposed to be for a few hours contemplating sacred art and silent meditation. But like almost everything the 72-year-old does, who he meets and what he says are picked over and pulled apart.
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/ 25 February 2008
Tourist guides from across Gauteng gathered under a hot marquee for the International Tourist Guides’ Day at Constitutional Hill in Johannesburg last week — and, for a change, were on the receiving end of an educational tour. "We are who we are through others," were the words of Lungi Morrison, of the Gauteng Tourism Authority.
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/ 5 February 2008
Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll that came out on Monday, which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real. The survey found that 47% thought the 12th century English king, Richard the Lionheart, was a myth.
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/ 28 January 2008
A New Zealand anti-apartheid campaigner has rejected a nomination for a South African award, saying he is dismayed over conditions in the country. John Minto was the national coordinator of the Halt All Racist Tours movement, and said black South Africans were now ”worse off than they were under minority rule”.