Ontario science centre

Watching the science and rock and roll exhibition

made us discuss the movie Rock-on

science of music

The many components which go into making a successful rock band, from the

managers to the roadies were well illustrated. The interviews with some Rock-Icons

gave many insights. The section where one can play one’s own band by placing

different instruments was Sahil’s favorite.

Later , as it became a bit noisy in the Rock music section, we went to the Planetorium

section where one gets a feel of Cosmic time.

MARCH 2015- Went to See Brain exhibition

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Reading walking trails

Betty Sutherland trail

Many lovely hours reading on these trails. Later went to meet a friend

Last time we had discussed Munro’s -Runwaway. This time I went through Nadine Gordimer’s – Burger’s daughter

Can a white man have an ideology which
can make him support the cause of the blacks? Lionel Burger was viewed ad a misguided person who could have been prime minister had he not been a traitor and ended up in jail for his beliefs.

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Sahmat is 25 years. Seeing this exhibition at art Gallery of Mississauga brought back many memories.

In India the caste – class question replaces the black unity and class question faced in South Africa.

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The port Credit area has many rich histories

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Of Letters and Prayers-On Gandhi Jayanti

Remembering Gandhi – ji, and reading the contours of the struggles in South Africa, where he first started.his.civil disobedience, through the work of Nadine Gardimer.

The rich complexity of the characters of Burger’s daughter, the many levels of meanings in the passages, make for the readings -reflection on this Gandhi jayanti

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Narsinh Mehta Prayer sung regularly at Gandhi-ji's prayer meetings..Inscribed at the Northern Gate of Lodhi Gardens -Delhi on occasion of Gandhi Birth Centenary Narsinh Mehta Prayer sung regularly at Gandhi-ji’s prayer meetings..Inscribed at the Northern Gate of Lodhi Gardens -Delhi on occasion of Gandhi Birth Centenary

Collecting prayers and hymns is a part of many spiritual traditions.

On occassion of Gandhi Jayanti we look back at some of the influences on Gandhi and the prayers which made him weave communities.

LETTERS

Tolstoy’s “Letter to a Hindu” was written in 1908 to Taraknath Das and implored Indians to use love as the means to fight the British in India. Gandhi translated it into Gujarati.(1)

If we do not want the English in India we must pay the price. Tolstoy indicates it.

‘Do not resist evil, but also do not yourselves participate in evil–in the violent deeds of the administration of the law courts, the collection of taxes and, what is more important, of the soldiers, and no one in the world will enslave you’…

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