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Peeping into Past…. Gandhi from Swiss Lens!!

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March 1930, a Swiss lens man leaves for a 20,000 km road journey, by car; and his works on our Satyagraha leader, freedom fighter, renowned for ahimsa (non-violence) worldwide, anti-British movement… all were published in his book Indien Kampft in 1931 … which as a cherished treasure have now been brought to India. Mahatma Gandhi in his daily routine, very personal moments, candid photography clicked by World famous photographer Walter Bosshard . Not only this, he travelled across Asia and captured a parallel world where  Mao Zedong, another revolutionary in China, was preparing for a war. Gandhi and Mao have contrasting similarities; both have been activists taking completely different paths as fighters. One chose non-violence for his country leading anti-British Quit India Movement and Mao in China fought a revolutionary battle against the caste and class demarcations. Walter visited China in 1938 where he also made a silent film on Mao, the training of Red Army

Food is the Ecology of Life

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While we are stepping into the New year, 2019, another milestone in the lives of billions of humans, to recreate for themselves a future not only for ourselves but generations to come forth..  I take this opportunity to narrate some portion of the discourse on our platter as FOOD FOR THOUGHT which Dr. Vandana Shiva gave to Ambavadis.. Doctor who Dares.. she is the crusader, the torch bearer who is the ray of hope in farmers life. Indian farmers, who have not only go their hands coated and burnt in chemicals and fertilizers, but their lives too have suffered drastically when the artificial world took over these nature growers and feeders. Suicides, BT cotton, BT brinjal, overuse of fertilizers, farmer suicides etc. these issues are just a tip of the iceberg!! WE are in a fragile moment for the future of earth but that of humanity as well, if we don’t protect the mother earth, humanity will go for a toss. We are living in a period of fake rivers, fake bees, fake news, f