{"id":135913,"date":"2020-08-31T01:57:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T20:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=135913"},"modified":"2020-08-31T01:57:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T20:27:29","slug":"webinar-on-mahatma-gandhi-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/08\/31\/webinar-on-mahatma-gandhi-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar on Mahatma Gandhi held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RONO HILLS, Aug 30:<\/strong> More than 250 participants, including college and university students, social sciences research scholars, faculty members and others, attended a national webinar titled &#8216;Reimagining Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;, organized by the sociology department of Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) here on Sunday to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his inaugural address, RGU Vice Chancellor Prof Saket Kushwaha called upon the youths, students, scholars and academia to identify with &#8220;their Gandhi within and be honest to their personal and professional obligations, as Mahatma always had emphasized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assistant Sociology Professor Dr Shashank Yadav said &#8220;the Gandhian imagery should be re-shifted from round specs and spinning wheel to his humane and empathetic principles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Anand Kumar from New Delhi-based Jawaharlal Nehru University in his address said that &#8220;Gandhi was one of the pioneers who lived nature&#8217;s way of living.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Gandhi became Gandhi by reading, thinking and living the way he preached,&#8221; Prof Kumar said, and added that &#8220;the process of change for Gandhi is very important, but it must be ethical, nonviolent and democratic, affirming rights to all destitute and minorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another professor from JNU, Deepak Kumar, delivered a lecture on &#8216;Reason and rationality in Gandhian thought process&#8217;, while Prof Avijit Pathak spoke on &#8216;The Gandhian talisman&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Vinod Kumar Yadav from RGU&#8217;s commerce department said that &#8220;Gandhian ideology and philosophy is beyond time and space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the concluding session, RGU Pro-VC Prof Amitava Mitra said, &#8220;Gandhi was a master strategist and a refined economist who focused on every sector of the economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RGU social work department&#8217;s Assistant Professor Dr Ravi Ranjan Kumar in his address called upon the young participants to &#8220;internalize the ideas and ideals of Mahatma, for sustainability lies in simplicity.&#8221; Dr Nawaz Khan from RGU&#8217;s mass communication department opined that &#8220;Gandhi was the best journalist this country ever had.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RONO HILLS, Aug 30: More than 250 participants, including college and university students, social sciences research scholars, faculty members and others, attended a national webinar titled &#8216;Reimagining Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;, organized by the sociology department of Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) here on Sunday to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. In his inaugural address, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-135913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}