Ahimsa

Dalai Lama: Prayers Will Not Achieve World Peace https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2018/02/dalai-lama-prayers-will-not-achieve-world-peace/ February 10, 2018 Although I am a Buddhist monk, I am skeptical that prayers alone will achieve world peace. We need instead to be enthusiastic and self-confident in taking action.

India a country with a tradition that promotes Ahimsa and Karuna: Dalai Lama  https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/headlines/1858676-india-a-country-with-a-tradition-that-promotes-ahimsa-and-karuna-dalai-lama New Delhi | 23-12-2021
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Thursday interacted with staff and students of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Rohtak via video conferencing and asserted that India is a country with thousands of years of a tradition that promotes Ahimsa (non-violence) and Karuna (compassion).  "We need to rekindle our own age-old Ahimsa and Karuna traditions. In order to create a peaceful and joyful environment, human nature needs to be more sympathetic. Together, Ahimsa and Karuna in our culture may teach the world a path of tolerance, thoughtfulness, and compassion."
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Dalai Lama: Prayers Will Not Achieve World Peace
February 10, 2018 https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2018/02/dalai-lama-prayers-will-not-achieve-world-peace/ Although I am a Buddhist monk, I am skeptical that prayers alone will achieve world peace. We need instead to be enthusiastic and self-confident in taking action

Ahimsa As Action Rajni Bakshi https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/remembering-salem-nanjudaiah-subba-rao-7604965/ 

Key legacies:  1. Facing the realities of   acts of hate crimes or violence within the family is an important first step to defiance and resistance that does not return violence with more violence. Focus on how most people are disgusted by violence.

2. most violence requires organisation and depends on material resources whereas nonviolence is driven by inner energy. 

3. Speak the truth, Be true to ahimsa.  This in turn can cultivate fearlessness — the foundational quality on which nonviolence depends.

Also see this blog: http://emeets.lnwr.in/index.php/e-active/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone/1505-s-n-subba-rao 

Whether one opposes Hindutva or supports it, it’s important to listen to the other side https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/hindutva-india-politics-7485549/ 
Rajni Bakshi writes: What is really at stake is the dream of 21st century India as an open society in which unconditional and equal right to life, dignity and freedom of expression is so vibrantly lived that all authoritarian tendencies and hate-based agendas become powerless

The international conference, “Dismantling Global Hindutva”, scheduled to be held in the US in the second week of September  inadvertently, could fan the fears of those Hindus who lean towards Hindutva largely due to unresolved insecurities. This is grievously unfortunate because the need of the hour is to open spaces where all of us can be more confidently self-critical and introspective. Those leaning towards Hindutva need to explore how their angst can be creatively and non-violently processed and sublimated. Conversely, those of us who oppose Hindutva need to find ways to reaffirm and restore the Indian ethos of “sarva dharma sambhav” by not treating advocates of Hindutva as our “other”, as an opponent to be eliminated.