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"Lord Pethic-Lawrence and Gandhi" by Unknown - Gandhi, Phaidon, 2002.

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KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen

FORUM FÜR ZEITGESCHEHEN

FRI 5.6. | 19:00 | SCHLOSS HERRENHAUSEN | FORUM FÜR ZEITGESCHEHEN „DIE ROSE DER FREIHEIT“ INDIENS WEG ZUR UNABHÄNGIGKEIT | BRIEF LECTURES & DIALOGUE |“Dear friend, before embarking on civil disobedience and taking the risk which I have dreaded to take all these years, I would fain to approach you and find a way out.” This was the beginning of a letter written by Mahatma Gandhi to Lord Irwin, then the incumbent Indian Viceroy and therefore the most powerful individual at the helm of British rule in India.

Although the letter did not achieve the envisaged way out, it did result in subsequent non-violent actions of protest. One of these actions was the so-called salt march under-taken in March 1930. This idea was one of many steps taken in India during the process of establishing an independent state. What role did Gandhi play in India’s conception of itself and still continues to play in our time? What is the contemporary relationship between India and Great Britain? And what path is India as a nuclear power with the second largest population of the world pursuing at the beginning of the twenty-first century?

Brief lectures by PROF. DR. GITA DHARAMPAL-FRICK University of Heidelberg and
PROF. DR. SRIRUPA ROY University of Göttingen
Discussion between JÜRGEN WEBERMANN, Indian correspondent for WDR, DRadio and other broadcasters, with the two guests

LANGUAGE English with simultaneous translation into German

DURATION ca. 90 minutes / no interval

ADMISSION FREE *

* NO PRE-BOOKING. The 250 seats will be allocated according to the “first come, first served” principle. Seats cannot be reserved in advance. Doors open at 18:15.

An event by the VolkswagenStiftung in cooperation with the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen

Termin(e): 05.06.2015 
von 19:00 bis 20:30 Uhr
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  • Herrenhäuser Straße 5
  • 30419 Hannover