"I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills." Mahatma Gandhi believed that non-violence requires more courage and dedication than violence. Gandhi used this technique first in South Africa, and began to practice a policy of passive resistance t...

Apartheid-The segregation of people by skin color. “Cry freedom cry. From deep inside, where we are all confined.” These words by singer/songwriter Dave Matthews establishes the fact that apartheid, separation of the races, was in fact, a very real thing in South Africa. The natives ...

"Although America might not like to admit it, there are definite parallels between their history prior to the civil war, and ours in South Africa." Almost certainly, for many years human beings have overlooked the major possibility of America being similar to Africa. Comparisons were ig...

In the serenity of the small garden in the backyard of the Birla house, I sat at a round table, shaded from the setting sun by a beautiful Nimbi tree. Across, sat the Mahatma Ghandi, clad in his simple white robe, looking at me through round eye glasses and wearing a smile on his face that tells...