“We do not want to universalize the Charkha through mass production in one place.” ~ Gandhi, Harijan, October 20, 1946 The spinning wheel, Gandhi was firm, should not become a centralized product that makes spinners dependent on someone far away to manufacture or fix them. They should be built in the villages directly, and every… read more
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“Ideal of Interdependence”–Daily Metta
February 20: “Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of humanity as self-sufficiency.” –Gandhi (Young India, 3-21-1929) Though Gandhi’s campaign in India is referred to as an “independence” movement it was more precisely a struggle for liberation. For Gandhi, liberation–both personal and social–is a matter of realizing right relationships to (if I… read more
