[Reader-list] Gandhi Katha, at IIC, New Delhi

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Gandhi Katha by Narayan Desai at Main Building, IIC, Lodhi Estate;
Time: 5:30pm-8:30pm on
26th-29th November 2010
Entry : Free, Call 011-24619431 ( IIC ) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event. 

Place : Gandhi-King Plaza, Main Building, India International Centre(IIC), 40 Max Muller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003

Event Details : Gandhi Katha by Narayan Desai.

The Gandhi Katha conveys the story of Mahatma Gandhi, providing an insight into his inner recesses as well as an analysis of his role in history through storytelling with appropriate songs composed by him.  The Gandhi Katha started six years ago as reparative acts of creative non-violence after the violence in Gujarat in 2002.
Songs rendered by  Sardar Patel School.

Collaboration : Gandhi Peace Foundation and WSAG


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Gandhi Katha at IIC - Delhi from 26 to 30 November 2010
India International Centre

Cordially invites you to


Gandhi Katha
by

Narayan Desai

The Gandhi Katha conveys the story of Mahatma Gandhi, providing an
insight into his inner recesses as well as an analysis of his role in
history through storytelling with appropriate songs composed by Narayan
Desai.

The Gandhi Katha started six years ago as reparative acts of creative
non-violence after the violence in Gujarat in 2002.

The Katha Songs rendered by Students of Sardar Patel Vidyalaya.


Friday 26, Saturday 27, Sunday 28, Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 November
2010
Every Day from 4.30 pm to 7.30 pm

Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza
India International Centre
40, Max Mueller Marg
New Delhi -110 003

As part of this programme there will be an exhibition of photographs:

Recall the Face
Conceptualised and curated by Suryakanthi Tripathi

Exhibition of Books on Mahatma Gandhi
On view in the main verandah, IIC

Jointly organised by
India International Centre
Gandhi Peace Foundation and
Working Group on Alternative Strategies

Bus Numbers: 047,052,440,521,522,526,580;
Bus Stops:  Get off at 'Lodhi Road Xing' or 'Max Mueller Marg'.
Bus Numbers: 326, 344, 970, 994;
Bus Stops: Get off at 'Mausam Bhawan' or 'Lodhi Garden'.
Bus Numbers: 026, 048, 056, 408, 719, 734;
Bus Stop: Get off at ' Lodhi Colony 18 Block'.

Nearest Metro Stations:
‘Jorbagh’ on Yellow Line
‘Khan Market’ on Violet Line
Wheelchair access is available.
Narayan Desai: Born in 1924; chose not to have a formal education –
support came from his father, Mahadev Desai and Gandhiji for this;
worked with his father (who was Gandhiji’s personal secretary) in
Gandhiji’s secretariat 1936-46; participated in the freedom movement.

After India’s Independence, active participant and leader in Vinobha
Bhave’s Bhoodan Movement from 1952-60 and later with Jayaprakash
Narayan 1960-76; walked 12,000 kms and received 3000 acres of land for
distribution; was National Secretary of the Shanti Sena, the All India
People’s Committee, Chairman of the War Resistors International, and
Founder Member and Director of World Peace Brigade.

An accomplished author and editor; has written over 50 books in
Gujarati, Hindi and English, including the epic four-volume biography
in Gujarati Maru Jivan Ej Mari Vani* – hailed as one of the finest
insights into the life of Gandhi; has edited Bhoomiputra, Yaqueen,
Buniyadi Yaqueen, Tarun Mun  and Sarvodaya Jagat, has won many awards 
that include the Bharatiya Jnanpith Murtidevi Award, the Sahitya
Akademi Award, the Ranajitram Suvarna Chandrak (highest literary award
in Gujarati); also received the Jamnalal Bajaj Award for constructive
work and UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Award for Non-violence and Tolerance;
is Chancellor of the Gujarat Vidyapeeth (founded by Gandhiji in 1920)
and President of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad; lives in Vedchhi, a small
tribal village in south Gujarat, where he set up a centre to train
activists in Gandhiji’s values – here hundreds of young rural activists
have learnt manual work and self-reliance and have gone on to question
the  'developmental model' in various parts of the country. 

* Now available in English, translated from the original Gujarati by
Tridip Suhrud and published by Orient BlackSwan in four volumes: My
Life is My Message (2009).


For any further information please contact:
India International Centre (Premola Ghose/L.S. Tochhawng-24619431)
Gandhi Peace Foundation (Ramesh
Sharma-9868221950)           

Working Group on Alternative Strategies (Suhas Borker-9868182845)