Pradip giri biography of mahatma gandhi
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Gandhi Jayanti was celebrated mitt i a function at the Nepal-Bharat Library in the Capitla on Monday.
Former prime minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand launched the Nepali edition of the Gandhi’s autobiography “The Story of My Experiments With Truth” translated by Shekhar Giri and published bygd Shivalik Prakashan.
The release programme, organised bygd the Embassy of India and BP Koirala India-Nepal Foundation, was attended bygd more than Nepali writers, artists, intellectuals and media persons.
In his address at the programme, former PM Chand spoke about the role of Mahatma Gandhi in the freedom struggle of India and the contributions of Gandhi and called him an icon of world peace, the embassy said in a statement.
Lawmaker and renowned Gandhian Pradeep Giri and Indian Ambassador to Nepal Manjeev Singh Puri jointly released the book along with Chand. Speaking at the programme, Giri stressed on how the principle of ‘ahimsa’ had the power to
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Bid to translate Gandhi's non-violence into practice
KATHMANDU: Political leaders, academics and civil society representatives today tried to translate into practice Mahatma Gandhi's most appreciated weapon -- non-violence and peaceful means of protests -- to bring about change in society.
Speaking at an interaction organised by the Ganeshman Singh Academy in Kathmandu coinciding with Gandhi's death anniversary today, they also stressed the need to do away with the "myths and misperceptions" related with India's Father of the Nation.
Gandhi was not a Mahatma, but an ordinary human being with weaknesses, but he tried to overcome them, said New Delhi-based Jawaharlal Nehru University Professor Ananda Kumar. "He tried to practice what he preached, that's why he called his life 'an experiment with Truth'.
Gandhi, who was shot dead by a Hindu fanatic on January 30, , neither submitted to injustice nor did he commit injustice to others, added Prof Kumar. "He strongly believed i
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Nepali Congress leader Pradip Giri, a noted socialist thinker, passed away on Saturday night.
He was
“He passed away at around pm,” Dr Pankaj Barman, a senior consultant and medical oncologist at Nepal Mediciti Hospital who had been attending to Giri, told the Post. “He was also battling a last-stage cancer. Pneumonia from which he had been suffering led to multi-organ failure.”
Giri was admitted to Nepal Mediciti Hospital in Lalitpur last month after he returned from India after treatment for cancer.
Earlier on Saturday, a statement by his family said Giri underwent immunotherapy a week back to boost his immune system.
“However, he has now developed massive pneumonia, which has further compromised his health, resulting in multiple organ failure,” the statement read.
Giri, a longtime Congress leader, worked closely with the late BP Koirala. He was highly influenced by the socialist movement in India led by Jayprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohiya.
He was known as a f