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Stress on Gandhian principles
By A City Correspondent
GUWAHATI, March 10 - Garvin Brown, the 79-year-old Gandhian from
Queensland, Australia who is in Assam to promote the cause of the
underprivileged children on Sunday said before mediapersons that the solution
to all the untold sufferings and problems afflicting the world lies in
embracing the Gandhian principles.
Calling upon the media to contribute towards bringing peace in the
strife-torn world, Brown, an ardent believer in Gandhism said that the media
had a big role to play in ushering the desired and positive changes. Stressing
the need for revolutionary changes so that all discrimination could be done
away with, Brown asserted that these changes for which everyone was waiting for
is possible only through the ideals propounded by Gandhi.
Brown has been relentlessly working for propagating the ideals of
Gandhi in Australia, and in 2003, he organized a Mahatma Gandhi Awareness Day
on the Gold Coast through the assistance of an Indian. He participated in the
75th anniversary of the Dandi Yatra, and has made it his mission to further the
cause of the down trodden through Gandhi's potent weapon- the walks.
"Gandhi belongs to the entire world and if he is forgotten, the
miseries of the world will multiply," said Brown recalling that when Gandhi was
assassinated, it was the flag of humanity that had to be lowered.
True to his philosophy, Brown declined the luxurious accommodation
in the capital city and he is staying at Parijat Academy, a school for the
underprivileged children located near Deepar Beel. He led a charity walk today
for raising funds for the down trodden children of the North East.
"Children all over the world are suffering and our efforts should
be united to give a new dawn to these children," said Brown adding that he was
walking in India to enter the hearts and minds and conscience of the people to
bring about a change in their perception.
He further said that the North East, witnessing rising conflict
should accept 'Ahimsa' and give up 'Himsa'.
He urged the rich and the fortunate of India to step down from
their pedestals and experience the hardships and sorrows of the suffering as
Gandhi urged.
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