Talk:Satyagraha

message: The section on "Economic Satyagraha" doesn't seem encyclopedic in the least. I checked the literature linked by this section, and the connection to Gandhian satyagraha is spurious. I propose cleanup or deletion.
68.57.139.189 (talk) 21:45, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Section on "Economic Satyagraha" seems like a promotional link.

message: replaced "earlier" with "various" since Jesus and everything else listed came AFTER the Upanishads, Jainism, etc, not before.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.221.55 (talk) 06:58, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Origins of Satyagraha

message: Did Gandhi explicitly relate to Jesus, especially his law "love your enemies" anywhere in his writings or outline of Satyagraha? Just started studying, so excuse me if the question is dumb.
--Jesusfreund 20:06, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: important question: Gandhis relation to Jesus

message: I think this article needs a clean-up tag. Doesn't look encyclopedic at all. Discuss? User:Borisblue
:Agreed. It's basically just a few long Gandhi quotes. Cleanup... Jebba 00:58, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: also, and more importantly i think, the quotes in the 'civil disobedience' and 'fasting' sections are never actually identified AS quotes. if you just skip down to one of those sections (which i did when first coming to this article) it sounds like an incredibly POV writer, not like a quote. (oops, that was me --dan 15:09, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Messy?

message: We're not told in this article what Satyagraha is. Nor are we treated to a history of the concept and its uses by Gandhi and others.
And to we have a system of diacritics on Wikipedia, so we can distinguish between long and short vowels? Tom  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.93.17.139 (talk) 19:20, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Not "messy", just incomplete!

message: Could someone familiar with this topic do some work on the above article? I recreated it after it was speedy deleted, but I am unfamiliar with this area and only modified what the original author had written. Thanks! KnightLago (talk) 05:24, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Non-possession]]

message: The article should talk about the movement that Ghandi led in India, and its effects, victories and failures. -Pgan002 (talk) 05:59, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ghandi's actual practice? 

message: Just pointing out that "satyagraha" is not a portmanteau, it's a regular compound word. In accordance with Sanskrit sandhi, the short a at the end of satya and the initial a in agraha result in a long ā. --93.105.206.29 (talk) 13:24, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a portmanteau 

message: Shouldn't the pronunciation be /sʌ'tja:grʌhʌ/, then? Hieronymus Illinensis (talk) 06:52, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Philip Glass composed an opera called Satyagraha, loosely based on life of Ghandi.  
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.2.132.119 (talk) 19:58, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The opera 

message: Under the header "Satyagraha and the Jewish Holocaust" the text also contains views about possible attack on India by Japan. Not only about Jews and Germany.
Since most Indians were not Jews at the time, and the citations are still arguably somehow interconnected, it would seem more fitting to rename the header to a more general header that could incorporate both the Jewish Holocaust and the views about the possible Japan attack on India.
Maybe it could be called "Satyagraha in relation to genocide" or something like that. Comments are welcome.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Naxa (talk • contribs) 10:36, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point. I renamed the section according to Naxa's suggestion since nobody had a better idea so far. — Sebastian 15:12, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Generalize the header about genocide-related views 

message: Currently, the article begins "Satyagrah [...] is a particular form of nonviolent resistance or civil resistance." But how is it particular? What distinguishes it from civil resistance? As far as I know, Gandhi himself used the two terms synonymously; preferring S. because it is positive, as opposed to a "non"-word. The gist of the article seems to be that S. is "civil resistance like what they did in India". If that is so, maybe we should treat this article as if its title were "History of civil resistance in India", and merge the rest into civil resistance? — Sebastian 15:12, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distinction from civil resistance 

message: In addition to the lack of a distinctive definition mentioned above, there is another question I have about the lead: the addition of "nonviolent resistance" in the lead sentence seems superfluous to me, given that civil resistance itself is currently defined by means of nonviolent resistance, so that it would be impossible to have the former without the latter. Can I just remove this? — Sebastian 15:12, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Nonviolent resistance" in the definition 

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message: Hello!
I drew a picture on Satyagraha. It is already used in the german article (de:Satyagraha). This is the English version of it.
It is a possible interpretation of the Satyagraha doctrine directly derived from the texts of Gandhi.
There also exists a photography of a "graphic training aid" from Sabarmati Ashram (see File:Mg-satyagraha.jpg) - but there can be problems with freedom of panorama and so on. So this SVG graphic can be an alternative! :-)
Is it good enough for the english article?
Friendly greetings, Quark48 (talk) 20:45, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't keep up on image-policy, but my understanding is that an image like that is usually rejected on content policy (WP:OR and WP:POV especially) and accessibility issues. --Ronz (talk) 01:37, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

text: I said nothing about it being from an "official" source. I suggest you seek help with editors that specialize in image-policy. --Ronz (talk) 15:52, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

text: I don't know where to find help on such issues, but Wikipedia talk:Image use policy certainly looks like a good place to try next. --Ronz (talk) 19:14, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture on Satyagraha