16. Why Gandhi?
• Transformation cannot be forced
• It has to come from within
• Not even the most brutal person, after seeing
one’s own brutality, can continue to be brutal
• Humans cannot endure guilt
• Self-deception is the only path to brutality
• Self-realization (truth) will make us free
17. How?
• Young leaders can take up the Gandhian path
• Engage with the flawed system
• Include everyone
• Use tactics to convey the message
• Mass mobilization
• Ridicule
• Make them see the pain they are inflicting
constantly
• Make them face their guilt everyday
18. Gandhian style
• What keeps the big companies going?
• Who works for them?
Make them see the consequences of their work
everyday.
• Who buys their products?
Indians burnt foreign fabric during the freedom
struggle. Can’t we now stop using the products of
unethical companies today? A self-imposed ban?
19. Gandhian style
• What keeps the oppression of the state going?
Choose not to elect corrupt leaders: Section
49-O
Bring a Structural change in the system
Abolish ownership
Show the state the suffering of the oppressed
due to the actions of the state
Arouse their guilt
20. Gandhian style
• What keeps the caste system going?
Show them the pain of the depressed classes
everyday
Arouse their guilt
21. Gandhian style
• What keeps the oppression on women going?
Show the oppressors what the women
undergo everyday because of them
Arouse their guilt
23. Gandhians after Gandhi
• Vinobha Bhave: Bhoodan Movement
• Jayaprakash Narayan: JP Movement
• Narayan Desai: Shanti Sena, peace brigades
• Chandi Prasad Bhatt: the Chipko Movement
• Harivallabh Parikh, Anand Niketan: The People’s
Court
• Radhakrishna Menon, Danagram: New Dawn
Gift-Village
• Prem Bhai, Agrindus Institute: Five Villages and
Four Hundred
24. Can we see it happening?
Yes
if we can believe that all human-beings are
inherently good
25. Let
truth
be
seen
and
experienced
by
everyone
all the time
