Gandhi’s Philosophy Webinar

 New Delhi, 22.09.2021

Below is a link to a Webinar organised on "Gandhi’s Philosophy: Its Relevance to the Contemporary World".

The YouTube link is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MPD3DD6fmE

The Webinar held at the India International Centre in New Delhi was chaired by Ambassador K. P. Fabian, former Ambassador to Finland. and is a conversation with Prof. K. P. Shankaran, former Associate Professor of Philosophy, St. Stephens College, University of Delhi, from 1985, who writes regularly on Mahatma Gandhi in The Indian Express, The Wire and The Beacon. Prtofg. Shankaran has written a book, “Marx and Freud on Religion” and many essays on Gandhi. 

The discussion was extremely controversial and lively with Ambassador Fabian leading the way with some hard questions about secularity in India.  

Prof. Shankaran compared the actions of Hitler and the British, as a colonial power, and in his opinion that the two, and the actions of several European powers as the Belgians in Congo or European South Africans in South Africa, they are only degrees of the same Western holocaustic domination of the South!

The central theme was that the Indian National Congress in 1909 ignored Gandhi's advice not to follow the Western Parliamentary. Democratic System, which is described as being Satanic and part of the Industrial Capitalistic system.  

Prof. Shankaran  tears apart the Indian Parliamentary system right from Independence in 1947 right up to the present day!

His statement that 50% of those serving in the Indian Parilamentary system have criminal records is well known and was indeed shocking.

Ambassadsor K., P. Fabian visiting the Microelectronics Laboratory at the University of Oulu in 1988. Jacob Matthan, Chief Engineer of the Laboratory is on the extreme left.

Going back over 30 years, Ambassador Fabian had given a speech in Oulu University on the "North-South Dialogue" which had highlighted, from a different perspective, the problems being faced by the developing countries around the world. 

"Seven Years Hard Labour in a Holiday Camp - A Finnish University" by Jacob Matthan carries the speech by Ambassador K. P. Fabian called "North-South Dialogue"

That article was published in the book “Seven Years Hard Labour in a Holiday Camp - A Finnish University” written by Jacob Matthan in 1994.