‘Hind Swaraj gave moral basis for an alternative to modern civilisation’
The Hindu
Hind Swaraj, a book authored by Mahatma Gandhi, is a text which proposes a moral basis for a civilisation as an alternative to the crass materialist-consumerist basis of modern civilisation, according
Hind Swaraj, a book authored by Mahatma Gandhi, is a text which proposes a moral basis for a civilisation as an alternative to the crass materialist-consumerist basis of modern civilisation, according to Chandan Gowda, professor from Institute of Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru.
He was delivering a talk on “Hind Swaraj in our Times” to mark Gandhi Jayanti during a webinar organised by the Gandhian Centre for Philosophical Arts and Sciences (GCPAS), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, on Saturday.
Prof. Gowda heads the Ramakrishna Hegde Chair for Decentralisation in ISEC, Bengaluru.