(video) What would Mahatma Gandhi stand for in Fiji today? Chief Guest lecture at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial High School, 2 October 2012.
11/11/2012
tags: Bainimarama Government, Catholics, Champa Chauhan, Common name, Dr Mangi Tauh, Dr Padma Narsey Lal, Education for the poor, Father Kevin Barr, fighting injustice, Green environment, Hindus, justice, Kisor Chetty, Krishna Samy, Mahatma Gandhi, Methodist Church, Muslims, non-cooperation, non-violence, Poverty, Saras Narsey, Shamima Ali, the untouchables, Truth, when violence is justified, women's emancipation
Segment 1 Why are you students celebrating Gandhi’s birthday?
Segment 2 His many great admirers, outstanding leaders in their own right.
Segment 3 The many criticisms and inconsistencies of Gandhi
Segment 4 What I believe he would have stood for in Fiji today? Who would he have given his support to? Pro-democracy movements? Shamima Ali? Father Kevin Barr? Sympathy for the Methodist Church? The environmentalists?
Segment 5 Several of MGMHS alumni I have personally known- my four sisters (Padma Lal, Champa Chauhan, Mangi Tauh, Saras Narsey), and my friend of four decades (Kishor Chetty).
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