Puja sharma biography of mahatma gandhi
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LIVING IN TRUTH by RAMIN JAHANBEGLOO, POOJA SHARMA
Mahatma Gandhi’s relevance to India and the world fryst vatten much more than ever before .
Driving this urgent need for bringing back Gandhi in our lives are two main factors: firstly,
contemporary politics lacks moral leaders, and, secondly, democracies around the world have
abandoned the empowerment of the weakest in favour of the economic and political supremacy
and hegemony of the strongest. Gandhi’s view of democracy was exactly the opposite. He said, ‘The
weakest should have the same opportunity as the strongest. That can never happen except through
non-violence.’ The Gandhian paradigm is based on truthfulness and non-violence and establishing
an essential relationship between social awareness and common humanity. For him, politics as the
art of organizing the kultur was a path to self-realization and autonomy of the individual and the
community.
Gandhi usually spoke of truth in terms of self-experience, rather than unive
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi spent 21 years in South Africa in the early years of his career as an expatriate. It was there, as a migrant, that he honed his experiments with truth. Gandhiji understood the inner life of a migrant from his personal experiences. His life shows that in addition to adaptability and resilience, a migrant would need to draw upon reserves of love, and a commitment to non-violence and truth. This book beautifully brings out all of these elements. —Pulin Nayak Former Director and Professor, Delhi School of Economics This book from Pooja Sharma and Nav Jadon is an interesting contribution to the debate on migration in today’s world; a topic of the utmost importance and topicality. Its approach, both rigorous and passionate, makes it a document of great interest in our troubled times. It combines the personal project of the migrant with the implications for the receiving countries and the world as a whole, in order to work for a more harmonious, just, peaceful an
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Pooja Sharma From Delhi Listed Among BBC's Most Inspiring Women; Here's What She Does
Pooja Sharma, a remarkable young woman from Delhi, has been recognised as one of the BBC’s inspiring and influential women worldwide for
Born on July 7, , Pooja comes from a middle-class family in the Indian capital. She has gained recognition for her extraordinary work, performing the last rites of over 4, unclaimed bodies in Delhi over the past few years.
Her journey into this unconventional path began under tragic circumstances. On March 12, , Pooja lost her elder brother, who was brutally murdered following a small argument, says the official website of her foundation. Left alone to handle the situation, she tied a turban on her head and carried out his last rites herself after no one came forward to assist.
This profound experience ignited her mission to ensure dignity in death for those whose bodies are abandoned. Overcoming societal resistance from priests and her community, P