Sevagram Ashram Pratishthan, Wardha

  International Online Fellowship Program on Nonviolence and Peace (IFPNP 2022-23) Summary Report International Fellowship Program on Nonviolence and Peace (IFPNP 2022-23) was organized by Sevagram Ashram Pratishthan in association with Gujarat Vidyapith, Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust and MGM University. This four months fellowship program (Oct. 02, 2022–January 30, 2023) was offered online and using English medium to support the international participants.  In addition participants were given an opportunity to participate in  an international symposium/ conference on related themes  held in  January/ February 2023 in India . The response to the announcement of the program was overwhelming. We had 110 applications from twelve countries (of Asia, Africa, Europe and America) of which 23 international and 28 national candidates were given admission. Inauguration:  It was  i naugurated on Oct. 02, 2022...

International Online Fellowship Program on Nonviolence &  Peace(IFPNP)    Distribution of Fellowship Certificate Peace Fellow Declaration Sevagram Ashram Pratishthan, Wardha, Maharashtra, India in association with Gujarat Vidyapith, Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust   both in  Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, and MGM University ,Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India  invites  you to participate in the valedictory function  of  International Online Fellowship Program on Nonviolence & Peace(IFPNP) on   May 12, 2023 at 3.00 pm IST   Program    Welc ome and Introduction : Dr. Siby K. Joseph, Director , IFPNP, Sevagram Ashram Pratishthan Declaration of Peace Fellows : Prof. Prem Anand Mishra , Dean , Faculty of Gandhian Studies, Gujarat Vidyapith Blessings to Peace Fellows : Smt. Ashaben Bothra , President, Sevagram Ashram Pratishthan Keynote Address : Prof. Moolakattu S. John , Editor, Gandh...

  Visit of Havildar Anuj Kumar Taliyan Havildar Anuj Kumar Taliyan of Madras Engineer Group – MEG (Madras Sappers), Indian Army,  visited the sevagram ashram on May 9, 2023. Smt. Ashaben Bothra, President of Sevagram Ashram Pratishthan welcomed him. He is a world renowned body builder who won gold medal at the 11th World Bodybuilding Championships held at Jeju Island in South Korea. In addition, he   won the Mr India title in 2018 at the 12th National Body Building Championship. He also won gold medal at the 54th Asian Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Championships 2022 held in Maldives.  Shri Anuj Kumar hails from a small village in churr, Meerut. The visit to the ashram was enriching experience for him. It reminded him the memories of his   village. He wrote in the visitors diary of the ashram in Hindi मैं आज सेवाग्राम में आया हूँ।   और यहापर आकर मुझे अपने पुराने घरों की याद आयी और बापूजी जिन्होंने देश को आजाद करने में इतना बड़ा योगदान...

    Rabindranath Tagore: A Universal Teacher                                                                                              Siby K. Joseph Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861in Calcutta. However his birth anniversary  is celebrated according to the Bengali calendar and it falls on the 25 th  day of Bengali month Boishakh. In the year 2023 we celebrate his birth anniversary accordingly on May 9.  He was the first non - European to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his classic work Gitanjali . Tagore returned his Knighthood for Services to Literature which was awarded to him in 1915 in protest against the Jallianwala  Bagh  Massacre in 1919.   He was t...

 

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  Newsletter - May 2023     Ashrams of Gandhi and Lanza del Vasto.   This text is the preface of a libretto by Siby Joseph published on the occasion of the Symposium held in January 2023 in Sevagram on  Gandhi and Beyond : Quest for a New World Order . You can read and download  https://gandhiinternational.org/fr/item/235-ashrams-of-gandhi-and-lanza.html   It seems that what characterizes a visionary resistance fighter of another is the ability to criticize what he sees of this world, appears to him as harmful to the life of man and woman in general, and to make in addition proposals of life in which a real coherence comes into play.   Gandhi is one of them and Lanza del Vasto (Shantidas) in his wake. Allow me two quotes, from a man of that time, who, at the end of the last world war, wondered as a witness of what he was experiencing. This is Georges Bernanos.   “I believe that if the methods of destruction eventually wipe our species off the...