#Mahatma Gandhi

Author: Kai Schultz and Hari Kumar / Source: New York Times Arun Sankar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images NEW DELHI — General elections in India will begin on April 11, officials announced on Sunday, with some 900 million voters eligible to cast ballots to fill parliamentary seats and choose

Author: Matt Davis / Source: Big Think Anarchism is usually connected to violence and chaos, but as a philosophy, its tenets are more nuanced than mere destruction for destruction’s sake. It may surprise some to find out that Noam Chomsky, famous for his innovations in linguistics and

Source: Good News Network Happy 75th Birthday to Sir Ben Kingsley, the English actor who has won an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He is best known for his starring role as Mohandas Gandhi in the acclaimed 1982 film Gandhi, for which he won the Academy

Source: Good News Network 50 years ago today, Glen Campbell’s album ‘Wichita Lineman’ hit #1 on the US album chart. The inspiration for that title song’s lyrics came to Jimmy Webb while he was driving through Washita County, Oklahoma. He was observing “an endless litany of telephone poles, each

Source: Good News Network 125 years ago today, the World’s Parliament of Religions conference opened—the very first organized interfaith gathering. 7000 people met in Chicago from at least 11 religions at the inaugural event that brought together both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions.