1. Development !!! - Not Development ???

2. Free India!
Free India.
Free India?

3. Free India!

4. Free India.

5. Free India?
East India Company Vedanta, the State and the media

6. Free India?

7. Free India?
Indian National Army The Maoist Movement

8. Free India?

9. Free India?

10. Free India?
Opium Cotton

11. Free India?
Bengal Famine Starvation today

12. Who is free?

13. Freedom for whom?

14. So, what do we do?
We? We?
We? We?

15. Is there hope?

16. Why Gandhi?
• Transformation cannot be forced
• It has to come from within
• Not even the most brutal person, after seeing
one’s own brutality, can continue to be brutal
• Humans cannot endure guilt
• Self-deception is the only path to brutality
• Self-realization (truth) will make us free

17. How?
• Young leaders can take up the Gandhian path
• Engage with the flawed system
• Include everyone
• Use tactics to convey the message
• Mass mobilization
• Ridicule
• Make them see the pain they are inflicting
constantly
• Make them face their guilt everyday

18. Gandhian style
• What keeps the big companies going?
• Who works for them?
Make them see the consequences of their work
everyday.
• Who buys their products?
Indians burnt foreign fabric during the freedom
struggle. Can’t we now stop using the products of
unethical companies today? A self-imposed ban?

19. Gandhian style
• What keeps the oppression of the state going?
Choose not to elect corrupt leaders: Section
49-O
Bring a Structural change in the system
Abolish ownership
Show the state the suffering of the oppressed
due to the actions of the state
Arouse their guilt

20. Gandhian style
• What keeps the caste system going?
Show them the pain of the depressed classes
everyday
Arouse their guilt

21. Gandhian style
• What keeps the oppression on women going?
Show the oppressors what the women
undergo everyday because of them
Arouse their guilt

22. We ask
“But is Gandhi relevant today?”

23. Gandhians after Gandhi
• Vinobha Bhave: Bhoodan Movement
• Jayaprakash Narayan: JP Movement
• Narayan Desai: Shanti Sena, peace brigades
• Chandi Prasad Bhatt: the Chipko Movement
• Harivallabh Parikh, Anand Niketan: The People’s
Court
• Radhakrishna Menon, Danagram: New Dawn
Gift-Village
• Prem Bhai, Agrindus Institute: Five Villages and
Four Hundred

24. Can we see it happening?
Yes
if we can believe that all human-beings are
inherently good

25. Let
truth
be
seen
and
experienced
by
everyone
all the time

26. Truth will make us free

27. Presented
by
Raj Kumar (31098)
Sapna Agrawal (31103)
Satturu Anusha Chaitanya (31104)
Saurav Paul (31105)
Vaibhav Rai (31113)
DTP, May, 2011