Snippets: Ahimsa Conversation #115 G.G.Parikh
Channel: Ahimsa Conversations
Date: 2022-12-30

On 30th December, 2022 the veteran social activist and freedom fighter G.G.Parikh, completed 98 years. It is an honor to publish this Ahimsa Conversation with 'G.G.', as he is fondly known, on his birthday. Drawn into India's Freedom Movement while he was a teenager, G.G. has been active in social and political movements for a more just and equal India for over eight decades. Here he talks about first accepting nonviolence as an ideal and as a method and then questioning the veracity of Gandhian nonviolence. He also explains how he formed his own understanding of nonviolence and become committed to the ideal. However, he points out, this ideal cannot exist in a vacuum without taking into account, and resisting, the force of structural violence. As G.G. puts it, a society that worships competition cannot be nonviolent. 
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