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In November 1969 VINOBA BHAVE returned to Paunar, Wardha, after his successful campaign for Bhoodan in Bihar, and remained there till his death in November 1982. At the Paunar Ashram, many eminent persons like Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Frontier Gandhi), Gopal Swarup Pathak (Vice President of India), Jayaprakash Narayan, Acharya Tulsi, Dr. Sushila Nayar, Indira Gandhi and others met him and held conversations on diverse topics. The book presents in English ...
Vinoba Bhave was not only the closest constructive-work follower of Mahatma Gandhi and the first Satyagrahi of the Individual Satyagraha of 1940; he also left an indelible mark on post-independent India with his Bhoodan-Gramdan movement. He was a saint, thinker and scholar of an extremely high order who could explain the most complex issues in simple but precise words. The book contains a collection of 1, 218 extracts selected out of a vast literature of Vinoba ...
There are a few books dealing with the thoughts of Gandhiji and Marx as interpreted by Lenin and Stalin, but probably none dealing with the post-Gandhi and post-Stalin developments. This book tries to remove that lacuna by dealing with Vinoba, the changed attitude of the Russian Marxists towards Gandhiji and his thinking, and the changed view of Marx as represented by Erich Fromm after the publication of an earlier work of Marx, his Economics and Philosophical ...
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 ...