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ROBI Damelin remembers only the shock and searing pain of that moment when she was told that her son, David, had been killed by the bullet of a Palestinian sniper. It was her family members who later told Robi that she had turned to the…

WE live in an age of many firsts. We are the first humans to have a ‘Doomsday Clock’ as well as an International Day of Nonviolence. What do we make of this contrast? Does the Doomsday Clock seem more real than The Knotted Gun…

ISRO’s successful soft landing of Chandrayaan is a joyous moment that can inspire us to dwell on a big question. As humans venture farther out into space, what dimensions of our behaviour will be at the fore? Will it be our capacity…

IT is ten years since the annals of nonviolent civil disobedience were enlivened by the ‘kissing protest’ in Turkey. In May 2013, scores of couples locked lips at a subway station in Ankara to protest against the authorities…

Non-violent civil disobedience is usually associated with images of a lone, unarmed and grim-faced person standing defiantly in the path of a tank. By contrast, laughter does not lend itself to such stark imagery but it is indeed a powerful…

AN impassioned procession of protesters was marching towards Gandhi Maidan in Patna. The year was 1974 and that procession was part of the Bihar Movement led by the Gandhian veteran, Jayaprakash Narayan (JP). This was a movement…

ONE morning, at a school assembly, the principal urged students and teachers to make their school a ‘heaven on earth’. A bit later, the same morning, two boys from Class 3 were brought before the principal because they had got…