tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76858271490864810352024-02-07T21:17:23.642-08:00MKG - Mahatma Gandhi in the 21st centuryBy Birad Rajaram YajnikBirad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-73755173773723903342015-10-01T22:18:00.000-07:002015-10-01T22:18:08.818-07:00Mahatma Gandhi in Belgrade - Lecture by Birad Rajaram Yajnik
Could not think of a
better day to post this video, it’s about the day Belgrade, Serbia surprised
me. 2500 Serbians attended my 90 minute lecture on Mahatma Gandhi at the Sava
Centar. THANK YOU BELGRADE, THANK YOU SERBIA and THANK YOU AMBASSADOR CHAUHAN.
Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-55999608621871938582015-01-14T05:57:00.002-08:002015-01-14T05:57:49.629-08:00MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr. DAY
15TH JANUARYMARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY
"To other countries, I may go as a tourist but to India I come as a pilgrim… if this age is to survive, it must follow the way of love and nonviolence
that [Gandhi] so nobly illustrated in his life.“
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. During his visit to India - Feb 1959
Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-84476813547065473622014-12-02T21:38:00.002-08:002015-01-14T05:54:57.889-08:00Bapu Pha digital exhibition in Thailand
His Excellency Gen. Tanasak Patimapragorn, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdon of Thailand and Mr ANIL WADHWA SECRETARY (EAST) Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India with Birad Rajaram Yajnik at the Bapu Pha digital exhibition in Bangkok, Thailand
Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-21036889770932360412014-09-27T21:43:00.000-07:002014-09-27T21:43:06.820-07:00Mandela Gandhi Youth Summit
The Mandela Gandhi Youth Summit held on 19th July 2014 had a multi prong impact in the Republic of South Africa. The significance of the date ( 19th July 2014 – a 100 years to the day when Mahatma Gandhi left the shores of South Africa) along with the location ( Constitution Hill, the current seat of the constitution of SA and a former prison that held Mahatma Gandhi and Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-23341271607247230742014-06-03T20:54:00.000-07:002014-06-18T23:06:27.380-07:00Mandela Gandhi - A digital exhibition by Birad Rajaram Yajnik
MANDELA GANDHI
A legacy of peace, change and reconciliation (1869 – 2013)
DIGITAL EXHIBITION AND YOUTH SUMMIT
Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi lived in different times and faced different opponents, but both leaders changed the destiny of their people for the better. They personally acknowledge the presence of the other in spirit and culture. Nelson Mandela said – “The spirit of Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-72010935132179601742014-05-19T05:42:00.001-07:002014-05-19T05:44:25.504-07:00The power to see the invisible.
Birad Yajnik: "I wish you all the power to see the invisible."
Watch his TEDx Talk "Magic: The ability to see the invisible"
Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-8072707586865817832014-01-14T09:07:00.000-08:002014-01-14T09:18:11.210-08:00Where else can you cross paths with Mandela and Gandhi in one day? by Eric Itzkin
http://www.heritageportal.co.za/article/where-else-can-you-cross-paths-mandela-and-gandhi-one-day-eric-itzkinBirad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-1931945301880717652013-12-09T21:44:00.003-08:002013-12-09T21:44:58.835-08:00Nelson Mandela - RIPWHEN YOU ARE IN THE COMPANY OF GREATNESS SELDOM DOES A CONCRETE WALL FAIL TO INSPIRE YOU, I AM SURE THE WHOLE WORLD WOULD AGREE AFTER ALL THAT WAS ALL THAT SEPARATED MR MANDELA FROM HIS PEOPLE FOR 27 YEARS IN PRISON.
In May 2010, I was visiting South Africa to launch the Student version of
my book – MKG – Peace Truth Ahimsa - A photo biography of Mahatma Gandhi. The
book release was Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-10232253205608255912013-11-08T23:01:00.000-08:002013-11-09T04:45:27.779-08:00Views of a young man after visiting the Peace Truth Ahimsa Museum
I must admit that by the end the “Peace,
Truth, and Ahimsa” session that I experienced today, I was overwhelmed with a
sense of joy. ‘Joy’, not out of the information and moral values I garnered
during my visit, but ‘joy’ because something ‘different’ was being done about
‘Mahatma Gandhi’. The idea of taking Gandhi as an ideology rather than a person
of historic significance, was the Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-86841304258202906052013-10-18T13:29:00.001-07:002013-10-18T17:16:50.055-07:00King Gandhi Wall
King Gandhi Wall By BIRAD RAJARAM YAJNIK
An interactive installation on M K Gandhi and his influence on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Location: Howard University, Washington DC, USA,
Over a 100 years ago (7th June 1893) at a small railway station in South Africa, a simple man the world calls Mahatma Gandhi was racially discriminated for the color of his skin. He Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-48992336458418151642013-09-23T00:09:00.001-07:002013-09-23T00:09:41.995-07:00Causing Change - One Student at a timeTwo years ago the Tourism department of the Government of Andhra Pradesh provided us with an opportunity to cause change at a historic location in Hyderabad. Ashes (asthi) of the simple man, the world calls Mahatma were immersed here on the 12th of February 1948. ….
730 days later we present some photographs from our first step. The Peace Truth Ahimsa Museum at Bapu Ghat, Langar house in Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-87306049787468013202013-09-22T21:20:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:20:42.627-07:00NOVEMBER 6TH - A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, A SINGLE EVENT CHANGED THE COURSE OF HUMANITY.
Photo: From the movie Gandhi (Ben Kingsley) leads his first protest march (Natal - Transval march ) of striking Indian miners in South Africa.
In 1913, a tax had been imposed on all former indentured labourers, known as the Indian Relief Bill. In protest of this, Gandhi launched a passive resistance campaign, gaining the support of thousands of mine workers. While leading a march on 6 Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-57458159379333530312013-09-07T06:53:00.001-07:002013-09-22T21:15:13.957-07:00World continues to find GANDHI in the 21st CenturyThis is the creative concept of a Delas campaign, a Brazilian site dedicated to women. Now that women are more aware of their rights, why wouln’t the next Gandhi or Che or Chaplin be a woman?
Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-76039050897924778742013-08-01T22:12:00.000-07:002013-08-01T22:12:57.683-07:00Gandhi - Hero or Villain?
An email from a young man in Singapore kept me awake for most parts of May 2nd night 2013, it took me more than 12 hrs to structure my response, hope was rekindled ...... the search for Gandhi continues ... the email exchange is listed below ..... its long but may be worth a read
------------------------------------------- From: Anirudh Raghavendran Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-74153441633556005362013-07-26T05:11:00.001-07:002013-07-26T05:14:30.642-07:008 YEAR OLD GIRLS set an example for CORPORATE INDIA.
Last week I conducted a workshop with a 100 – 8 year olds, they were in grade 3 and visiting the Peace Truth Ahimsa Museum on Mahatma Gandhi. I asked them to pay for a snack and beverage with money that THEY WOULD CREATE. I also informed them that the money collected if in excess of the costs would be used to help economically challenged children.
Paper, pens and pencils were provided and Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-15430886985536428352013-07-08T23:17:00.000-07:002013-07-09T05:59:54.068-07:00Peace Truth Ahimsa - A Student Tour to South Africa by Birad Rajaram Yajnik
Birad Rajaram Yajnik speaks on the student tour to South Africa, tracing the journey that transformed Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi the lawyer to Mahatma Gandhi the greatest peace leader of our times.
http://www.peacetruthahimsa.com/Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-15568913486996276082013-06-11T21:09:00.002-07:002013-06-11T21:09:43.492-07:00Gandhi and the World of Advertising Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-22866222371392177932013-05-13T22:29:00.000-07:002013-05-13T22:29:03.412-07:00The Assassination of Gandhi, 1948 - Eye Witness Account (Vincent Sheean)
"Just an old man in a loincloth in distant India: Yet when he died, humanity wept." This was the observation of a newspaper correspondent at the death of Mahatma Gandhi. The tragedy occurred in New Delhi as the gaunt old man walked to a prayer-meeting and was engulfed by one of history's great ironies - a life-long pacifist and promoter of non-violence struck down by an assassin's bullet.
Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-80177952070687266412013-05-03T21:43:00.003-07:002013-05-03T21:43:30.458-07:00YoginiBirad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-57030135293361908832013-04-30T01:40:00.001-07:002013-04-30T01:40:55.917-07:00Posters @ Peace Truth Ahimsa MuseumBirad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-82458280023552595762013-04-23T02:35:00.001-07:002013-04-23T02:35:59.286-07:00Gandhi at IIM KozhikodeBirad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-37434928093232971762013-04-16T02:12:00.002-07:002013-04-16T02:13:58.579-07:00Mahatma Gandhi among leaders most admired by CEOs globally
Mahatma Gandhi figures among the top three most admired leaders of the world, said a global survey of CEOs conducted by accountancy firm PwC.
While Winston Churchill tops the list of 10 most admired leaders, Gandhi figures in the third position after Steve Jobs (co-founder of Apple), said the 16th Annual Global CEO Survey.
As part of its annual survey, PwC said it recently asked Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-32210940634411264542013-03-20T03:48:00.001-07:002013-03-20T04:05:34.587-07:00More on Gandhi and CricketOn 30 January 1948, two days after the 4th Test ended in Adelaide, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, barely six months after Indian independence was declared. The multi-faith team attended a combined prayer service reported by The Argus – Monday 9 February 1948.
..................The congregation passed a resolution of sympathy, which will be sent to the Governments of India and Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-81563946943633616362013-03-20T03:46:00.001-07:002013-03-20T03:46:20.176-07:00Gandhi and cricket Gandhi and cricket by RAMACHANDRA GUHA The writer is the editor of The Picador Book of Cricket.
Article appeared in The Hindu on Sunday, September 30, 2001
NOW, in the week we mark Mahatma Gandhi's 132nd birth anniversary, we must ask ourselves: Did he ever play or watch cricket himself? The biographies that I have read do not mention the game, indeed any game. A cricketer does, however, does Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685827149086481035.post-45106568542330453182013-03-11T23:21:00.002-07:002013-03-11T23:21:56.640-07:00MKG & MLKMahatma Gandhi's ‘light’guided Martin Luther King Jr.By NIRUPAMA RAO - Ambassador of India to the United States.
Having won our independence in a nonviolent struggle, Indians join Americans in celebrating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s leadership of the civil rights movement in the United States. On Aug. 28, we will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington where Birad Rajaram Yajnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15866132388677554405noreply@blogger.com