Selected Conversations of Vinoba Bhave (1978)

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The year 1978 marks a culmination of the last phase of Vinobaji’s life when he had decided to strictly confine his conservation to science, spirituality and constructive work. He has a feeling that he might not last long. hence, he was even less disposed to talk and was given more to laughs, jokes and puns on words, with increased look of mischief in his eyes. Spirituality did not mean metaphysics for Vionibaji, but what aimed at removing the complexes of the heart; and science, for him, was confined to physical health. All sorts of persons, ordinary or important, Indian or foreigners, came to meet him during the year. One would find in this book Vinobaji’s conservations with prominent thinkers like Ivan Illich, gandhian Like R.R. Diwakar old colleagues like Dada Dharmadhikari and sarvodaya workers like Siddharaj Dhadda, Narayan Desai, Jagannathan and others along with political personalities like Indira Gandhi.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vishwanath Tandon

Dr. Vishwanath Tandon (b. 1913) is a retired Reader and Head of the Postgraduate Department of History, K.G.K. Postgraduate College, Moradabad (.P.). He was associated with the Central Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, New Delhi for about twenty years after his retirement in 1973. Here he wrote the report of the work of the Nidhi till 1969, which was published under the title of 'In the Memory of Mahatma Gandhi'. He later looked after the Nidhi's English monthly 'Sansthakul'. Dr. Tandon's special field of study is Sarvodaya thought and movement. His English publications include 'The Social and Political Philosophy of Sarvodaya after Gandhi' (Sarva Seva Sangh Prakashan, Varanasi), 'Acharya Vinoba Bhave' (Builders of Modern India Series, Publications Division titled 'Selected Conversationso f Vinoba Bhave National Gandhi Museum, New Delhi). About a score of his research articles in English, some of them on Gandhiji, have appeared in 'Gandhi Marg', 'Radical Humanist', and 'Khadi Gramodyog'. He is presently working on an ms on 'Vinoba and Marx'.