Year of India: Lecture by Rajmohan Gandhi

Salomon 101, 5 pm

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, is a leading public intellectual and humanitarian. His talk, "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi," will explore King and Gandhi's historical and philosophical roots, their similarities and differences, and their meaning for us today.

Gandhi is a prolific author, and is currently a research professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2007, his biography of his grandfather, Gandhi: The Man, his People, and the Empire, was chosen for the prestigious National Biennial Barpujari Prize of the Indian History Congress, given once in two years for an outstanding work of history.

Gandhi has worked consistently for India-Pakistan and Hindu-Muslim reconciliation, and was recently elected President for two years of Initiatives of Change International, an NGO working for trust and reconciliation. He is a Jury Member, Nuremberg International Human Rights Award, and Co-chair, Centre for Dialogue & Reconciliation, Gurgaon, India. A former member of the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of the Indian Parliament), he led the Indian delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission in 1990.

A Kathryn O. Greenberg Lecture. Free and open to the public. Doors open at 4:30pm.

More information: http://brown.edu/web/india/