Inviting you to a In Person Meeting of Prayer & Remembrance at CED, 4 to 6 pm, 30th Jan 2023

4 pm to 5:10 pm
We will share experiences and reflections on the striving for nonviolence.

From 5:10 to 5:25 we will observe meditative silence.

We will close with a multi-faith prayer and singing of Vaishnav Jan To.

The meeting with also be on Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88330433294?pwd=M0NoRmJJZTlteHoxUmMvWms0M21SUT09
Meeting ID: 883 3043 3294 Passcode: CED30

On Gandhiji's martyrdom day, 30th January, Ahimsa Conversations will complete three years.
https://www.youtube.com/@AhimsaConversations

* In March, 2022, the first series of 108 episodes was completed.
* The Conversations of this first series have been arranged into 12 playlists which reflect the broad themes that are emerging.
* Since then 23 Ahimsa Conversation Glimpses, videos of a minute or less, have been published.
* On October 2nd 2022, the second series of Ahimsa Conversations was launched.
* There are now 116 Ahimsa Conversations online and a total of over 250 videos -- including 'Snippets', 'Glimpses', recordings of Ahimsa Conversations Live sessions and even the occasional 'Curator's Blog'.

On Monday 30th January, let us gather both in person and online, to mark this crucial day in the recent memory of this sub-continent. We gather to reaffirm core values of truth, brotherhood, compassion and nonviolence and also to share notes on our collective efforts to live by these values.

We will start with a few songs, poems, bhajans.
Then we can share reflections on the on-going explorations of and striving for ahimsa.
I can review how and why I began Ahimsa Conversations and where the journey has taken me over these three years.
Let us have an open sharing of our nuanced understanding of multi dimensional forms of nonviolence and how we can better understand the striving for it and critique our efforts so far. Hope you can join us. Warm Regards: Rajni Bakshi

https://thewire.in/rights/banjara-kumbh-mela-rss 

Since the early 17th century, members of the Banjara community from across India have been gathering every year at the Pohra Devi shrine in the Washim district of Maharashtra. But this year, attempts are being made to replace the Pohra Devi pilgrimage – considered to be a vital part of the community’s belief system – with a ‘Kumbh Mela’ at Godhri village in Jalgaon, which began on January 25 and will continue until January 30.

Many community members are unhappy about this development and allege that the intention behind the Banjara Kumbh Mela, organised under the patronage of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), is to “Hinduise” the nomadic community and woo them into the Hindu fold.

The Maharashtra state government has funded a large part of the six-day festival, spending close to Rs 2 crore just on sanitation for the event organised over 500 acres of land in Jalgaon district. Over 10-12 lakh people from the Banjara community from across India are expected to attend the mela. Senior RSS member Suresh ‘Bhaiyyaji’ Joshi, Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis are also expected to attend.

Several rights activists and academics from the community have questioned the state government’s decision to spend the exchequer money on a private event organised for one caste. “Focusing on one community and spending government funds on it is plainly unconstitutional,” alleges Arjun Rathod, a community activist who has been campaigning against the state government and the RSS for attempting to impose “Brahminical practices” on the nomadic community.

by Sukanya Shantha

27/01/2023

Prakash Ambedkar PC 27-2-2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUQc56UDT3k  

 : जुने वाद काही असतील तर ते सोडावे लागतील, प्रकाश आंबेडकर अनकट

Sanjay Raut | 'पवार भाजपचे म्हणणं चुकीचं, शब्द जपून वापरा': संजय राऊत https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EYvHKzu6RM TV9 Marathi 27.2.2023