The new book Gandhi In Bombay by Usha Thakkar and Sandhya Mehta

Media Coverage:

1. Why Bombay Was Special For Mahatma Gandhi - Mumbai Mirror

2. The Mahatma and The Metropolis - The Hindu

3. Once Upon a Time in Bombay - The Indian Express

4. Release of 'Gandhi in Bombay' - Janmabhoomi

Martyrs' Day Programme - 30th January 2014

Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, Mumbai
&
Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya

has organised programme for Martyrs' Day

to mark 66th Death Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi

on Thursday, January 30, 2014

at Mani Bhavan, 19 Laburnum Road, Gamdevi, Mumbai - 400 007

Programmes:

Time	Name	Prayer
7 .30 a.m.	Spinning
8.00 to 9.00 a.m.	1. Smt. Shoma Sen 2. Smt. Sonali Borkar teacher,     Balmohan Vidya Mandir, Dadar 3.. Balmohan Vidya Mandir,dadar   4. Chikitsak Samuh Shirolkar High school, Girgaon	Prayer
9.30 to 10.00 a.m.	Smt. Madhavi Nanal & Group	Hindu  prayer
10.00 to 10.30 a.m.	Shri Bardoliwala	Zoroastrian prayer & Bhajans
10.30 to 11.00 a.m.	Mr.Soloman Charikar OIT (India)	Jewish  prayer
11.00 to 11.30 a.m.	Shri. Swaranjeet	Sikh prayer
11.30 to 12.00 noon	Mr. Khan Mahmood .Ali Albarkaat Malik Moh. Eng. H school .Kurla(w)	Muslim prayer
12.00 to 12.30 p.m.	Rev. Sanjay Salvi	Christian prayer
12.30 to 1.00 p.m.	Shri. Somnath Parab & Party	Bhajan
1.00 to 1.30 p.m.	Smt. Meera Agharkar	Bhajan
1.30 to 2.00 p.m.	Smt. Geeta Yennamadi Saraswati Vrindgan Mandal	Bhajan
2.00 to 2.30 p.m.	Smt.  Neepa	Jain Prayer

---------------- Please join us and pay Tribute to Father of the Nation.   Dr. Usha Thakker President Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya, Mumbai. Smt. Usha Gokani Chairman Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, Mumbai.

Martyrs' Day programme 30th January 2013

Gandhi Smarak Nidhi,  Mumbai
&
Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya

has organised programme for Martyrs' Day
              to mark 65th  Death Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi
on  Wednesday , 30th January , 2013

at Mani Bhavan, 19 Laburnum Road, Gamdevi, Mumbai - 400 007

Programme:

	7.30 - 8.00 a.m.	Mass Spinning
	8.00 - 9.00 a.m.	Prayers & Bhajans by:
		Smt. Madhavi Nanal , renowned singer from Gwalior Gharana.
		Shri Hiren Dave, Teacher, Happy Home School  for Blind, Worli. Shri Yogesh Gagani , Teacher , Green Lawns School Breach Candy. Students from Happy Home school for Blind, Worli.
	9.30 a.m. to  2:00 p.m.	Sarva Dharma Prarthna - Prayers from all the religions.

You are invited to please join us to pay tributes to Mahatma Gandhi.

Shri Vasant Pradhan President Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya, Mumbai.

Srimati Usha Gokani President Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, Mumbai.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then indeed is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior.
- M.K. Gandhi , Young India, 10-4-1930

Trusteeship As a Moral Foundation for Business

Trusteeship As a Moral

Foundation for  Business

C. GOPINATH

When corporate scandals  break out, a review of  corporate governance practices follows and fresh regulation is introduced. However, the public debate on  the standards of acceptable corporate behavior appears devoid of moral expectations. Our corporations should not only  be  legal  and economic beings but moral ones too.  Gandhi’s concept of “trusteeship” can serve as a philosophical foundation for businesses and provide requisite moral guidance.

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Audio Music - 11 vows of Gandhiji

Sanskrit chants  sung by Kamini Natrajan describing Gandhiji's  11 vows 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmiekufRy3E

" People say that the days of big public meetings, processions and
speeches are past, that the time has come to work while keeping the
mouth shut. But the organizers of conferences and public meetings
are always anxious to make great shows of them. In their zeal, many
times they forget the truth and practise deception on the innocent
public while making preparations for conferences. A notice about
some conference says:

It is a matter of great pleasure that the conference is going to take place
in a big way. Important leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, the Ali Brothers,
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr. Kitchlew, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Devdas
Gandhi, Shankerlal Banker, Rajagopalachari, Seth Jamnalal Bajaj, Maulana
A. Jafar Khan, Shrimati Gandhi, Bi Amma Sahiba, Tapasvi Sunderlal,
Makhanlal Chaturvedi , Shrimati Subhadra Kumari, etc., are expected to come.

It is possible that the reception committee has sent invitations to
these leaders. But till replies have been received from them saying that
they will try to come, it is not true to say that they are expected to
come. However commendable the intention may be, it is improper to
mislead people. Once or twice people may be deceived, but very soon
the workers lose their prestige as well as the I trust of the people.
Abraham Lincoln has rightly said: ‘You can fool all the people some
of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool
all the people all the time.”

- M.K.Gandhi , Hindi Navajivan, 1-6-1924

Responsible Journalism

 I have taken up journalism not for its sake but merely as an aid to what I have conceived to be my mission in life. My mission is to teach by example and precept under severe restraint the use of the matchless weapon of satyagraha which is direct corollary of non-violence and truth. I am anxious, indeed I am impatient, to demonstrate that there is no remedy for the many ills of life save that of non-violence. It is a solvent strong enough to melt the stoniest heart. To be true to my faith, therefore, I may not write in anger or malice. I may not write idly. I may not write merely to excite passion. The reader can have no idea of the restraint I have to exercise from week to week in the choice of topics and my vocabulary. It is a training for me. It enables me to peep into myself and make discoveries of my weaknesses. Often my vanity dictates a smart expression or my anger a harsh adjective. It is a terrible ordeal but a fine exercise to remove these weeds.
-  M.K.Gandhi,  Young India, 2-7-1925

Invitation to the lecture on

'Mahatma Gandhi's Philosophy Today : Nonviolence  and Transforming Our Lives and the World'

by Prof. Douglas Allen*

on

23rd August, 2012 at 3.00 p.m. 

at Mani Bhavan, 19 Laburnum Road, Gamdevi, Mumbai 400007.

*Prof. Allen is Professor of Philosophy, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA. His most recent books are Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade, Comparative Philosophy and Religion in Times of Terror and The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for Twenty-First Century.  Prof. Allen is in India on a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research  Fellowship at Mani Bhavan to do research on 'Mahatma Gandhi and Violence, Terrorism and the Contemporary World.'

***

Mahatma Gandhi's Speech on Quit India movement

Mahatma Gandhi's Speech on Quit India , August 8, 1942 . To read please click on the link below. Thank you.


http://www.gandhi-manibhavan.org/gandhicomesalive/speech6.htm

Rules for personal cleanliness – M.K.Gandhi 

       Indian Opinion, 2-2-1907 [Gujarati]

1. Avoid, as far as possible, blowing your nose or spitting on

swept or paved walks or in the presence of others.

Both these things should be done into a spittoon while at home, and into a handkerchief while out, and, as far as possible, in privacy.

2. One should not belch, hiccup, break wind, or scratch oneself

in the presence of others.

These [maxims] are useful for correct social behaviour. By

practice one can learn to check one’s instinct to do any of these

things.

3. If you want to cough, do so holding your handkerchief

against the mouth.

If one’s spittle gets blown on to others, it annoys them and if

one has any disease, the spittle carries it to them.

4. Even after a bath, in many men, some dirt remains in the ears

or under the nails. It is necessary to pare one’s nails and keep them as well as the ears clean.

5. Those who do not grow a regular beard should, if necessary,

shave every day. An unshaven face is a sign of laziness or stinginess.

6. One should not let mucus accumulate in the corners of the

eyes. One who allows this to happen is considered slothful and a

sleepyhead.

7. Every act of cleaning the body should be done in privacy.

8. The turban or cap and the shoes should be clean. The life of

the shoes is prolonged by cleaning and polishing.

9. Those who chew betel-leaf and nut should do so at fixed

hours, as with other kinds of food so as to avoid giving the impression that we are eating all the time. Those who chew tobacco have a lot to think about. They disfigure every spot by spitting. Addicts to tobacco, as the Gujarati proverb goes, spoil the corner of the house where they chew tobacco, the whole house if they smoke and their clothes if they take snuff.

-          Indian Opinion, 2-2-1907 [Gujarati]

Three days 32nd Annual Naturopathy Camp of Akhil Bhartiya Prakratik Chikitsa Parishad, Rajghat was concluded  on 17th June. Chairman of ABPCP Renowned Gandhian and Freedom Fighter Ex MP Sh Keyur Bhushan Ji had inaugurated the Funtion on 15th June with the ex Dy. Chief Minister Haryana Mr. Chandra Bhan.
Akhil Bhartiya Prakratik Chikitsa Parishad is a pioneer institute of Gandhian Philosophy. Out of 21 Dream Project work of Rastrapita Mahatma Gandhi, one of them is Naturopathy and RAM NAM Chikitsa. Akhil Bhartiya Prakritik Chikitsa Parishad is spreading of simplicity and divine life style in Hindusthan. web site is http://www.abpcp.com/

"  What I did was a very ordinary thing. I declared that the British could not
order me around in my own country. "  - M.K.Gandhi.

From the book  A Week With Gandhi by Louis Fischer

Kasturba Gandhi 11 April 1869 - 22 February 1944

For the life sketch of Kasturba Gandhi, please click on the link below
http://www.gandhi-manibhavan.org/kasturba/kasturba_lifesketch.htm

National Week Programme

Events
National Week Programme

Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, Mumbai

&

Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya

has organized programmes for the National Week

from April 06, 2012 to April 13, 2012

at Mani Bhavan, 19 Laburnum Road, Gamdevi, Mumbai - 400 007

April 09, 2012	4.00 p.m.	Book release function "My Reminiscences of fifty years in Mani Bhavan" written by Smt. Usha Trivedi
April 10, 2012	3.00 p.m.	Recitation of Ashram Bhajans by Smt. Madhavi Nanal

All are Cordially invited to attend the programmes.

Shri. Vasant Pradhan                               Smt. Usha Gokani
   President                                            PresidentMani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya         Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, Mumbai

http://www.gandhi-manibhavan.org/activities/c_news_36.htm

Gandhiji's thoughts on women

" Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the very minutest detail in the activities of man and she has an equal right of freedom and liberty with him. She is entitled to a supreme place in her own sphere of activity as man is in his. "



- Excerpts from Gandhiji's speech at Bhagini Samaj, (Bombay) Mumbai, February 20, 1918.

Martyrs' Day Programme 2012 at Mani Bhavan

 Gandhi Smarak Nidhi,  Mumbai

&
Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya

has organised programme for Martyrs' Day
              to mark 64th  Death Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi)
on  Monday , January 30th, 2012

at Mani Bhavan, 19 Laburnum Road, Gamdevi, Mumbai - 400 007

Programme:

	7.30 - 8.00 a.m.	Mass Spinning
	8.00 - 9.00 a.m.	Prayers & Bhajans by:
		Smt.Gita Yannamandi, Saraswati Vrindagaan Mandal, Gamdevi.
		Shrimati Sonali Borkar Shri Sunil Varankar J.B.Vachcha High School, Dadar
	9.00 a.m. to  2:00 p.m.	Sarva Dharma Prarthna

You are invited to please join us to pay tributes to Mahatma Gandhi.

Shri Vasant Pradhan President Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya, Mumbai.

Srimati Usha Gokani President Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, Mumbai.

Gandhiji's articles suffer from condensation

 " I own that often my articles suffer from condensation. They are made to yield a meaning I had never intended. The Ajmer illustration quoted by my correspondent is clinching. This matter of copy-right has been often brought before me. But I have not the heart to copyright my articles. I know that there is a financial loss. But as Harijan is not published for profit I am content so long as there is no deficit. I must believe that in the end my self-denial must serve the cause of truth. "
- M.K.Gandhi
Harijan, 15-6-1940.

Non-violent nationalism

" Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is the curse. Non-violent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life ." - M.K. Gandhi

Young India, 27-11-1924.

Misquotes of Gandhiji

Misquotes that Bapu is forced to wear

Paul JohnPaul John, TNN | Oct 3, 2011, 01.00AM IST

Times Of India , Ahmedabad

 

AHMEDABAD: "Be the change you want to see in the world," "There is enough wealth in the world to satisfy everyone's needs, but there is not enough to satisfy everyone's greed," "Customer is God,"... And, the list of what are said to be some of Mahatma Gandhi's most quotable quotes is much longer.
However, those exchanging greeting cards, key chains and posters with these quotes printed on them would be disappointed to know that Mahatma never uttered these words.
Scholars who have been pouring over more than 50,000 pages of the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG) have not found any references to these quotes in these voluminous works. And, it is none other than Gandhiji's great grandson Tushar Gandhi, who endorses their stand and calls for a serious need to clear any aberrations in Bapu's work and sayings.
"The 'Be the change...' quote is not Gandhiji's. It can be considered a paraphrase of what he may have said," said Tushar Gandhi. " Customer is an important visitor..." is again not Bapu's quote, but a highly condensed portion of a speech that he made at an inaugural function of a Khadi outlet.
The CWMG is a collection of Bapu's personal correspondences, articles that he wrote for journals and newspapers, speeches, interviews, letters to editors and even telegrams in his lifetime prepared in 98 volumes since from July 4, 1888. The only reference that one finds to the "Be the change..." quote are interviews of Bapu's grandson Arun Gandhi by Carmella B'Hahn and Michel W. Potts in early 2000. Arun Gandhi indirectly quoted Gandhiji.
In an article that appeared in the Harijan in 1940 Mahatma Gandhi wrote, "I own that often my articles suffer from condensation. They are made to yield a meaning I had never intended. . ." Mahatma Gandhi had strong reservations of anyone modifying his language without his prior permission.
The quote, 'There is enough wealth in the world to satisfy everyone's needs, ...' is actually credited to an American pastor of Swiss origin Frank Buckman, founder of the Moral Rearmament movement. The famous quote 'Customer is an important visitor...' which appears on every traders and businessman's desk is a highly condensed paraphrase of one of Bapu's speech. Bapu never said "Western civilization is a good idea....". It is not mentioned in his autobiography or the CWMG.
The only persons authorized to write or modify what Gandhiji wrote when he was alive were his two personal assistants, Mahadev Desai and Pyarelal Nayar. Their memoirs and diaries are considered authentic sources of Bapu's quotes apart from CWMG and the Bapu's autobiography.