IIT KGP's Gandhian Call
The KGP Chronicle (August 29, 2020)
IIT Kharagpur’s month-long celebration of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary which ended August 28, 2020. The international e-symposia which started on August 8, the anniversary of the launch of the Quit India Movement in 1942, could not have a more befitting close than the day marking the anniversary of the historic civil rights march at Washington DC in 1963 and the iconic speech of Martin Luther King Jr. – “I have a dream”. With India journeying through the pandemic, global economic turmoil, trade war with China and the ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat’ mantra of Govt. of India, we Indians are embracing a dream, and not so strangely this dream is quite similar to one, once explored by the man who shaped the history of modern India – Mahatma Gandhi. The five symposia organised by IIT Kharagpur in association with global universities in USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, reaffirmed the fact of Gandhiji’s relevance in possibly all facets of our socio-economic lives. (Read More)