Activist and spiritual leader Arun Gandhi will speak at Bloomsburg University on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. in Carver Hall, Gross Auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public.The grandson of the legendary peace fighter and spiritual leader Mohandas Gandhi, Arun Gandhi will discuss his grandfather’s legacy and their kinship, as well as will speak on “Lessons Learned from my Grandfather: Non-Violence in a Violent World.”
Born in 1869, Mohandas K. Gandhi was considered the father of his country, India. As the leader of the Indian nationalist movement against British rule, Mohandas Gandhi protested against violence in hopes of achieving a political and social balance. He was assassinated in 1948. Arun Gandhi, founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, is the author of “A Patch of White,” published in 1949, which explains the prejudice filling South Africa. He wrote two more books on poverty and politics in India.
Arun Gandhi is inspired by his grandfather’s words, “If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.”
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