Mahatma Gandhi

Too often, leadership is seduced by power. The allure of authority, prestige and influence can slowly overwhelm the original motivation to serve people. What begins as a…

From Durban to Delhi, millions light diyas in defiance of darkness — reminding a fractured world that goodness still glows

On his first diplomatic visit to India, Nelson Mandela was treated as a kindred spirit and likened to Gandhi, a gesture he gently rejected.

The India politician is on a Global South tour to spread a message of diasporans blending loyalty to their birthplace with pride in their ancestral homeland

Cyril Ramaposa showed the world that turning the other cheek does work, but Trump does not have the emotional intelligence to recognise this

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.