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Dharampal was a Gandhian thinker with a creative and imaginative intellect. As a historian and political philosopher he has impacted generations of intellectuals in post-Independence India. From his childhood, he was deeply inspired by Mahatma Gandhi.
Responding to Gandhiji’s call for individual Satyagraha in 1940, he joined the freedom movement and became actively involved in the Quit India movement (1942-43). In the 1950s founded a cooperative village near Rishikesh. He was also a founding member of the Indian Cooperative Union in 1948. According to Dharampalji, until his very last days in Sevagram Ashram, an ‘intellectual-psychological unburdening’ was a matter of urgency, so that ‘India could come into its own’, as he phrased it. This entailed that Indian societal organisation, its polity as well as its cultural and economic institutions become regenerated, locally and nationally, from within – and after intense self-reflection, determined by the needs of the people concerned.
Dharampalji’s life-long commitment was that of a true Indian patriot towards the cultural, social, economic, political and intellectual welfare of Indian society. His relentless endeavour was to help in building and reshaping various contemporary efforts and institutions in a manner that would be in harmony with the Swabhava of our people. He travelled widely, giving talks, writing articles for the press, and co-establishing and interacting intensely with a large number of institutions (including the PPST, the Centre for Policy Studies, and the ICHR). He was fortunate to live a long, eventful, productive and influential life, in which there was a consonance between anubhav, vichar and achaar. Above all, he was an outstanding practitioner of nishkama karma. To learn more about Dharampal click https://www.dharampal.net/
Prafulla Ketkar, is the Editor, Organiser (Weekly) since 2013. He has a experience of over 20 years in the fields of research, media and academics. He is also Advisory Committee School of Journalism,Delhi University. He has been writing on issues related to International politics and foreign policy, with special reference to China and Democracy, Hindutva, and Bharatiya Civilisation. Read more at: https://organiser.org/author/prafulla…
Guest: Prafulla Ketkar, Editor, Organiser (Weekly)
Anchor: Dr. Gautam Choubey, Academic, Translator
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