ARUN GANDHI TO SPEAK ON NONVIOLENCE
ON OCT. 19 AT BRYN MAWR

Arun Gandhi, the grandson of the legendary Indian leader Mohandas K. Gandhi and founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, will speak in Thomas Great Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 19, at 8 p.m. The lecture, titled "Nonviolence or Nonexistence: Options for the 21st Century," will be followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. The event, sponsored by the SGA Special Events Fund, is free and open to all, but a ticket is required to attend. To obtain a ticket, contact ntodi@brynmawr.edu.

Born in Durban, South Africa, Arun Gandhi suffered a violent childhood under the white-supremacist apartheid regime, which officially classified South Africans by race from 1948 to 1993. Gandhi has said that his grandparents turned him away from seeking revenge for his injuries by teaching him that justice cannot be achieved through violence, but only by transforming one's opponent through love and suffering.

After Gandhi married in 1958, the South African government told him that his wife, Sunanda, would not be allowed to live in South Africa, and Gandhi moved to India, where he worked as a journalist for The Times of India for 30 years. He and Sunanda initiated numerous social and economic programs, based on constructive principles of nonviolence, that have changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in villages throughout India, according to the Web site of the the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence. He is the author of several books.

Arun and Sunanda Gandhi founded the Gandhi Institute, which is hosted by the Christian Brothers University in Memphis, in 1991. The institute sponsors educational programs aimed at conflict prevention, anger management, diversity training and relationship- and community-building.

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