Mohandas Gandhi
Celebrating Hindu American heritage should come with some critical reflection
By Anantanand Rambachan — October 5, 2023
(RNS) — Four insights of the Hindu tradition that can contribute to the well-being of Hindus and the world.
Second attack on Gandhi statue will be investigated as a hate crime, NYPD says
By Richa Karmarkar — August 19, 2022
NEW YORK (RNS) — In the second incident of vandalism in less than two weeks, a Gandhi statue outside of Shri Tulsi Mandir was toppled and defaced in what police are now investigating as a targeted hate crime.
Tom Cornell, Catholic worker and Dorothy Day lieutenant, dies at 88
By Patrick O'Neill — August 3, 2022
(RNS) — An author and lecturer, Cornell spent his life promoting nonviolence, conscientious objection and the Catholic 'Works of Mercy' that represent the core values of the Catholic Worker Movement.
Why Hindus should celebrate Black History Month
By Murali Balaji — February 17, 2022
(RNS) — Hindus have influenced the Black experience in America since W.E.B. Du Bois.
Hindu religious leader held for insulting Gandhi in India
By Ashok Sharma — December 30, 2021
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police on Thursday arrested a Hindu religious leader for allegedly making a derogatory speech against India’s independence leader.
Why Indian farmers’ protests are being called a ‘satyagraha’ – which means ’embracing the truth’
By Sumit Ganguly — February 18, 2021
(The Conversation) — It evokes a long political history that goes back to the Indian nationalist movement against British rule.
Why Indian activist Faisal Khan should matter to all Americans
By Timothy Dobe — December 11, 2020
(RNS) — An Indian Muslim's imprisonment may seem an unlikely cause to draw Hindus and Christians together.
The little-remembered philosopher who translated Gandhi’s ideas for Americans
By John Charles Wooding — October 2, 2019
(The Conversation) — Mahatma Gandhi is an iconic figure for the world. Richard Barlett Gregg helped introduce him to Americans.
In her own words: Coretta Scott King on faith, materialism and grief
By Adelle M. Banks — January 13, 2017
(RNS) She helped type and edit her husband's sermons and rejected the asceticism he had wanted to model after traveling to India and studying Gandhi's words. Excerpts from her book, as told to the Rev. Barbara Reynolds.
Escaping this toxic political season to reread the words of my heroes
By Yonat Shimron — July 26, 2016
(RNS) To escape the flood of poisonous rhetoric, I turned off my TV and shut down my computer, and sought relief by rereading my favorite thinkers: Mark Twain, Mother Teresa, Mohandas Gandhi and Elie Wiesel.
Is nonviolence a solution to all the world’s conflicts? (COMMENTARY)
By A. James Rudin — October 31, 2014
(RNS) There remains a thin line between nonviolence and martyrdom.
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