Gandhi Jayanti – birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi – 02 October, is also the International Day of Non-violence (Ahimsa).
Ahimsa – abstention from violence to achieve an outcome – is an ancient philosophy. But Gandhi revolutionized Ahimsa: from a personal practice, into a “unique weapon” of social and political change.
Main critique of Ahimsa is that it assumes that the adversary will have compassion and sense of justice; and that it can only succeed with “a free press and the right of assembly.”
On balanced though, Ahimsa is desirable because it is “the politics of ordinary people.”
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