Prashant Shukla

Gandhi's Peaceful Protest in 1934 and Violent Protest in 2020  The mass gathering at a time of COVID19 epidemic, looting, breaking windows, burning property, and stealing goods in the name of humanity in major American cities is equally disturbing as the inhuman killing of George Floyd. The peace-loving and law-abiding citizens can not support this lawlessness. The institutional racial discrimination is a menace and world need to have a priority in eradicating it.  The importance of Gandhian non-violence is increasing day by day. These days even superpowers feel insecure, the universal presence of injustice, terrorism, religious fanatism makes people realise that powerful states are failing to their fundamental duty to protect their citizens.  Gandhi's non-violence tool become a mass movement which defeated powerful colonial powers that liberated millions This is a time we need to go back to Gandhian values, as Gandhi used non-violence as a powerful tool at individual and commu

Today Leo Vardkar An Taoiseach (Prime Minister) made a very powerful statement in the Dáil Éireann (Irish Parliament) to condemn racism and discrimination.  We do not need to look across the Atlantic to find racism. We have many examples in our own country. Discrimination on the basis of skin colour is pernicious....  "In recent days the world has watched in horror the events following the killing of George Floyd. It has prompted a palpable outpouring of emotion and spontaneous expressions of solidarity against the poison of racism. We have also seen genuine revulsion at the heavy-handed response in some instances towards peaceful protesters and journalists." Racism too is a virus, transmitted at an early age, perpetuated by prejudice, sustained by systems...... "We have witnessed the absence of moral leadership or of words of understanding, comfort or healing from whence they should have come. It is right to be angered by injustice. Racism too is a virus, transmitted at