New Book: “Quest for Gandhi: A Nonkilling Journey”
The Center for Global Nonkilling has just published Balwant Bhaneja’s Quest for Gandhi: A Nonkilling Journey, where his travel memmoires through India are shared. Bhaneja is a retired Canadian diplomat and special advisor to CGNK. The volume can be downloaded for free from CGNK’s website and paperback copies can be ordered at US$ 10. Part of the proceeding will help fund CGNK’s 2011 operations.
The book, a deep desire to understand the meaning and relevance of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s inclusive message of nonviolent political action in early 21st Century, is from Balwant Bhaneja’s travel journal about meetings in the spring of 2006 with individuals, young and old, across India who in their unique ways have been impacted by Gandhi’s life and have chosen to follow the nonviolent path for social justice and a nonkilling peace. While on the way to visit them, the journey also becomes a pilgrimage to some of the places (including Mumbai, Bangalore, Madurai, Trivandrum, Pune, New Delhi and Dehradun), where Mahatma Gandhi stayed during the struggle for India’s Independence from the British Rule.
Balwant Bhaneja was born in Lahore and left India in 1965 for Canada. He has written widely on politics, science and arts. He is author of 3 books on South Asian politics including Science and Government: Nehru Era (Delhi: National Publishing House, 1992). His most recent work, a collaboration with Indian playwright Vijay Tendulkar, entitled: Two Plays: The Cyclist and His Fifth Woman (2006) was published by Oxford University Press (India). A former Canadian diplomat, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester.
