Category: August 2016

The AIDS Society of India, People’s Health Organisation and CNS an Indian News agency in collaboration with the Gandhi Development Trust gave a recognition award to Ashok Ramsarup for his dedicated service to media work incorporating local and overseas news. Present at the ceremony were Dr Ishwar Gilada, who was involved with first HIV diagnosis…

On the 18 August at 11 a.m. at the Durban University of Technology’s City Campus Room 149 the Mahatma Gandhi Media Lecture will be delivered. The guest speaker this year is a renowned Prof. Aashish Kumar from the Hofstra University USA, where he is teaching undergraduate students in single camera documentary production. He has various…

As we have done for the past three years we partnered with a sister organisation –The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes-ACCORD. We identified the historic heritage site The Phoenix Settlement as the site for service. This is the site where in 1904 Mahatma Gandhi established his first Ashram. There are several activities…

His holiness the Dalai Lama said we should always wait a moment before reacting. We just need that moment to cool off to get your thoughts together and the anger dissipates and your actions become carefully considered actions rather than anger driven actions. While we speak of rapid response to issues of crime and violence,…

As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the famous demonstrations in front of the Union buildings in Pretoria staged by 20,000 women of all races and classes establishing the oneness of South African society, we are once again confronted by the demons of racism, of inequality and of continued strife. Ironically August 9th also marks…

Trying to understand the various attacks that have taken place on innocent people in the past month One cannot help but wonder whether there is some form of mania behind all this. The responses from various leaders, Newt Gingrich of France, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton have been vocal about their intention to hit back albeit…