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Previous India Tours Included Dehradun and Vandana Shiva
Buffet breakfast at the hotel. After breakfast, embark on a full day visit to the Navdanya Farm (Dr. Vandana Shiva Center) See also: Video – Bill Moyers talks with Dr. Shiva Navdanya means “nine seeds” (symbolizing protection of biological and cultural diversity) and also the “new gift” (for seed as commons, based on the right to save and share seeds. In today’s context of biological and ecological destruction, seed savers are the true givers of seed. This gift or “dana” of Navadhanyas (nine seeds) is the ultimate gift – it is a gift of life, of heritage and continuity. Conserving seed is conserving biodiversity, conserving knowledge of the seed and its...
Read MoreAhmedabad Visit Travel Notes – Day Two
[Editor’s note: Stephanie Brown was a participant of this year’s tour, she has been journaling at her ShutterFly photo blog where she has posted many more images that she and her father Jerry took] Ahmedabad Day 2 On our second day in Ahmedabad we visit Gujarat Vidyapeeth University. A school founded by Gandhi in the 1920’s in keeping with his beliefs in experiential learning. We were a little early for our visit so Arun started by showing us around the Gujarat Vidyapeeth Energy Park where they demonstrate the use of bicycle powered saws, lights, sprinklers, and fans and solar powered spinning machines, condensers and ovens. It was not set up the...
Read MoreAhmedabad Visit Travel Notes – Day One
[Editor’s note: Stephanie Brown was a participant of this year’s tour, she has been journaling at her ShutterFly photo blog where she has posted many more images that she and her father Jerry took] The Gandhi Legacy tour is a J-term course option at Salisbury University in Maryland. One of our tour members, Anthony, attended as a SU graduate student last year and came back this year to bring his fiancé, Katie. Half seriously they started talking about getting married at the Sabarmati Ashram during the tours Ahmedabad visit. Arun caught wind of it and started making the preparations including re-writing the vows that his Grandfather once used to be...
Read MoreLegacy Tour Kolhapur to Pune
Day 3. On the road from Kolhapur to Pune. Visiting Aga Khan Palace. Aga Khan Palace is a majestic building, featuring Italian arches and spacious lawns, is considered to be one of the greatest marvels of India. The palace is closely linked to the Indian freedom movement as it served as a prison for Mahatma Gandhi, his wife Kasturba Gandhi. It is also the place were Kasturba Gandhi and Mahadev Desai breathed their last breath. In 2003, Archeological Survey of India (ASI) declared the Palace as a monument of national importance. Share us on:ShareTweet Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to email a...
Read MoreHappy New Year, This Year’s Gandhi Legacy is Underway!
Happy New Year to all of our friends, old and new! This year’s Gandhi Legacy Tour is just starting its 4th day, with images and notes streaming in from several social media sources. We will gather and post them here as we discover them! Day 2 – The children of AVANI assemble to meet and greet our travelers in Kolhapur – always a special day for the children entrusted in our care! The Gandhi ‘ Legacians’, as Tushar Gandhi calls our distinguished group of Legacy travelers, inspect the brickyards where many children (and parents) work under squalid bonded labor conditions – and listen to Anuradha Bhosale, Kolhaphur’s ‘Bandit...
Read MoreGandhi Calendar 2013
Namaste Friends, Enjoy attached 2013 New Year Gandhi Calendar! Gandhi Calendar 2013 from Gandhi Legacy Tour | Gandhi Calendar 2013 Lynnea Bylund is managing director of Gandhi Legacy Tours, Director of Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute, founder of Catalyst House and has nearly three decades of experience in administration, marketing and business development. She was a nationally recognized spokeswoman for the emerging alternative video and information delivery industries. She has a degree in holistic health-nutrition from the legendary and controversial health educator and activist Dr. Kurt Donsbach, she is the founder of two not-for-profit small business-based...
Read MoreGandhi’s Second Son: Manilal Gandhi Remembered on his Birthday
Source: ArunGandhi.net Today was the birthday of Manilal Gandhi, Arun Gandhi’s late father and the second son of M.K. Gandhi. Here is a brief look at Manilal’s own life and legacy drawn from a few select sources: Listen to a 1954 interview w/ Manilal Gandhi Manilal Mohandas Gandhi (28 October 1892 – 4 April 1956) was the second of four sons of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi. Manilal was born in Rajkot, India. In 1897 Manilal traveled to South Africa for the first time, where he spent time working at the Phoenix Ashram near Durban. After a brief visit to India, in 1917 Manilal returned to South Africa to assist in printing the Indian Opinion a...
Read MoreBarefoot College Spreads Knowledge to Africa
At a time of increasing involvement with decentralized rural energy systems particularly solar energy, such a system of training barefoot solar engineers can prove very useful in increasing the self-reliance of rural communities in installing and maintaining solar energy systems. Barefoot College’s Bunker Roy at TED – It’s an unexpected scene that you come across in the dusty plains of Kishangarh block in Rajasthan’s Ajmer district — women from several African countries being trained by their Indian sisters to become barefoot solar engineers. Welcome to the world of solar energy in Tilonia village. Here the campus of Barefoot College has...
Read MoreThe Bandit Queen* of the Social Movement
Anuradha Bhosale, the Bandit Queen* of the Social Movement is the famous human rights activist of Kolhapur India who co-founded the AVANI organization in 1995 to defend underprivileged women and children. AVANI means Food-Clothing-Shelter. Anuradha’s AVANI School rescues Indian children from forced labor brickyards and sex trafficking and provides them with food and educational nourishment and provides them with the sense of belonging to a community, which they may never have had before. AVANI is one of the organizations we visit on the Gandhi Legacy Tour. Guest post by: Dr. Sunilkumar Lavate, Principal, Mahaveer College, Kolhapur *[EDITOR’S NOTE:...
Read MoreBill Moyers talks with Vandana Shiva
One of the stops on the Gandhi Legacy Tour is Dehradun (January 11, 2014) where we will enjoy a full day visit to the Navdanya Farm (Dr. Vandana Shiva Center). In this amazing video Bill Moyers talks with scientist and philosopher Dr. Vandana Shiva, whose become a rock star in the global movement against genetically modified seeds. These GMO seeds — considered “intellectual property” by the big companies like Monsanto that own the patents — are globally marketed in order to monopolize food production and profits. Opponents challenge the safety of genetically modified seeds, claiming they also harm the environment, are more costly, and leave local farmers...
Read MoreThe Gandhi Legacy Tour Itinerary Overview
Tom Ross produced this video, he used HD footage from the Gandhi Legacy Tour 2009-2010 captured by TeamAhimsa member Princess Leah aka Lynnea Bylund, his own original music, the song is called “Tinaja” off of his Medicine Show album. Thank you Tom, beautiful work, we are grateful for all your support. ——————————————– Lynnea Bylund is managing director of Gandhi Legacy Tours, Director of Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute, founder of Catalyst House and has nearly three decades of experience in administration, marketing and business development. She was a nationally...
Read MoreReality Tours Thanks Dr. Gandhi & Gandhi Legacy Tour
The Legacy Tour Continues – Global Exchange Reality Tours Thanks Arun Gandhi for 15 Years of Partnership. Guest post by Malia Everette | Global Exchange Back in 1997 Reality Tours wanted to offer a tour of a lifetime to India that would inspire our members. When we met Dr. Arun Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, and learned about the important work he was doing in the US and India we knew we had a wonderful partner. We developed a plan; Arun would educate our participants about the philosophy and teachings of Gandhi as we journey to historic and cultural sites important in Gandhi’s life, while also witnessing his living legacy in the work of cooperatives,...
Read MoreGandhi’s grandson helps India’s poor with tourism plans.
Gandhi organization’s efforts to combat forced child labor and trafficking will be one of the featured examinations on this week’s BBC World News – the Fast Track series. View the BBC Report Here – Gandhi’s grandson helps India’s poor August 12, 2010 / Wauconda, IL / Dr. Arun Gandhi, President of the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute (‘GWEI’) www.gandhitour.info, announced today that his organization’s efforts to combat forced child labor and trafficking will be one of the featured examinations on this week’s BBC World News – the Fast Track series. Part of a week-long exploration of organizations involved in a commonality of efforts to improve the...
Read MoreThe Relevance of Gandhi Today
Sixty years after his death a portion of Gandhiji’s ashes, stashed away by Madalsa and Shriman Narayan, the daughter and son-in-law of Jamnalal Bajaj, will be immersed at Chowpati Beach in Mumbai. Although I will be thousands of miles away in the United States the memories of sixty years ago will be refreshed and the day will be as poignant as January 30, 1948. In 1969 when the world celebrated Gandhiji’s 100th birth anniversary many of us who had lived in Sewagram Ashram, Wardha, with Gandhiji were invited for a reunion. The person who organized this event was Shriman Narayanji who was then the Governor of Gujarat. He shared with us a story of his experience with...
Read MoreCode Name SiMBa
From the Gandhi Legacy Tour 2009 – 2010 #TeamAhimsa Participant SiMBa , “How are you Being in the Universe, right now? And how is the Universe experiencing your being, in this moment? Just a quik note, to say hi, and let you know, that you are all now infamous on YOU-tube, via the uploading of the 6 Stepping Stones of the Gandhian Philosophy: Wrote a song about, wanna hear it, hear it goes…” Love, SiMBa (See Me Beautiful, with inspiration & abundance mixed in/Spirit, Mind & Body) Share us on:ShareTweet Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to email a link to a friend...
Read MorePassion with Detachment
Dr. Vandana Shiva is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization, (along with Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, and Jeremy Rifkin), and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices, as is evident from her interview in the book Vedic Ecology (by Ranchor Prime) that draws upon India’s Vedic heritage. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain’s Socialist Party’s think tank. She is also a member of the International Organization for a Participatory Society. She was awarded the...
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