Sublime

Thousands of villagers gathered along the route to see the Mahatma and support the movement. Walking ten to twelve miles a day, Gandhi gave rousing speeches and recruited volunteers. He urged village headmen to resign their posts and cease cooperating with the British government. He promoted other elements of his agenda: spin khaadi and boycott for

In March 1913, a high court of South Africa declared invalid the marriage of two Hindus—and, by extension, invalidated the marriages of Ganda and Amba Kapitan and every other Hindu and Muslim couple in South Africa. A stroke of the judicial pen rendered illegitimate any marriage conducted by rites of "a religion that recognizes polygamy,"

I do, however, take some comfort in the democratic diversity and prominence of Gandhian environmentalism in India. It has the potential to become a locally bred expression of dialogical transcendence in our times.

I found a small book that spoke about Tarimala Nagireddy aka Comrade TN. He was a Telugu man. He too, like me, was from Anantapur District in Andhra Pradesh. But more importantly, he was a Communist leader, so committed to the cause of economic and social equality, that he eventually rebelled against his own father and redistributed hundreds of acr