[Asia_news] reminder of HRC Seminar Tuesday 17 October,
Dr Tridip Suhrud, HRC Visiting Fellow
wips.hrc.ccr
wips.hrc.ccr at anu.edu.au
Mon Oct 16 13:40:22 EST 2006
Humanities Research Centre Seminar
Between Experiment and Sadhana: Towards an Understanding of
Gandhiji's Observances
Dr Tridip Suhrud
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communications
Technology, Near Indroda Circle, HRC Visiting Fellow
Tuesday, 17 October, 2006 at 4.00pm
Theatrette, Old Canberra House, ANU
The attempt here is to explore the relationship between an
'experiment' and 'Sadhana' (usually understood as spiritual practice)
through Gandhiji's life and thought. Gandhiji decided to call his
autobiography "An Experiment with Truth." The question is what is
experiment with Truth? How does one do so?
Related to it is the question of the communicability of religious and
spiritual experiences. Is it possible to communicate to others what
is known only to oneself and one's Maker?
These questions are explored through Gandhiji's practise of fasting,
its relationship to Brahmacharya (often translated in the limited
sense of celibacy or chastity), prayer and the nature of the Ashram
communities that he established.
Tridip Suhrud works on the life and thought of Mahatma Gandhiji. He
has completed the translation from Gujarati into English of a four
volume, 2400 page biography of Gandhiji written by Narayan Desai, My
Life Is My Message. He has translated and compiled a biography of
Harilal Gandhi; Harilal Gandhi: A Life'. He is a series editor, with
Ashis Nandy and Thomas Weber, on a new series called Gandhi Studies.
He is deeply interested in the theory and practice of translation and
has translated from English works of Ashis Nandy, Ganesh Devy and
Paulo Freire into Gujarati and translated Gujarati novelist Suresh
Joshi into English.
Tridip Suhrud is a political commentator and writes regularly for
newspapers in his native language Gujarati. His earlier work was on
the autobiographical tradition in India and the Nineteenth-Century
Social Reform movement in colonial India. This work is about to be
published as 'Writing Life: Three Gujarati Thinkers'.
He is working on a social history of Gandhiji's fasts called 'Emptied
of All But Love' and compiling Gandhiji's dialogues with Srimad
Rajchandra titled; 'The Ascetic and The Mahatma'.
For more information please contact Judy Buchanan:
T: 6125 2700; E:
<mailto:administration.hrc at anu.edu.au>administration.hrc at anu.edu.au;
W: http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc
All Welcome
This lecture is free and open to the public. Parking vouchers are
available upon request.
ANU COLLEGE OF ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES
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