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The legacy of India's imagination:  A dialogue with Rajni Bakshi by Uday Dandavate  Sep 12, 2023
Using “Bazaar” as a metaphor for healing the rupture between ecology and economy. In our dialogue we talk about her vision for a future based on caring that eschews violence and embraces the foundational qualities of how a traditional Bazaar (marketplace) works as an organic ecosystem of caring people.

A youth group in Mumbai invokes legacy of Gandhi-Vinoba Monday, September 11, 2023,  https://www.freepressjournal.in/angels-of-mumbai/a-youth-group-in-mumbai-invokes-legacy-of-gandhi-vinoba “At the Blue Ribbon Movement, we believe in long term, self-initiated change. We believe in invoking deep democracy through different initiatives that start with a three-hour ‘act-a-thon’ where youth learn the tools of accountability within the civic system, then a three-month challenge, followed by a three-year fellowship. This helps them build a lifelong connection with the Blue Ribbon Movement,” Abhishek Thakore said

Leading up to the upcoming Municipal elections in Mumbai, they are encouraging involvement from a larger public through interactive games, civic sessions, conversations with prominent citizens, local audits and a Citizen Manifesto.

Rajni Bakshi said of BRM "At a time when social and political lives are becoming increasingly polarised, they are making an attempt to listen to everyone, and are trying to find ways to go beyond the polarisation,” .

The Sanatana Dharma for which many in the BJP are willing to wage a war may at best be one of the small tributaries of a vast and perpetually self-renewing legacy of a mighty cultural flow of Hindu religion in India. 

https://thewire.in/religion/saakhi-the-santana-dharma-on-caste-dissent-and-democracy 

by Mrinal Pandey

11/09/2023