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THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPEARED IN BOMBAY,INDIA IN MUMBAI MIRROR DATED 4TH NOVEMBER, 2005, WHICH IS WORTH READING:

THIS is the man Americans now look up to

Mahatma Gandhi has been crowned ‘Management Guru’ by Harvard School of Business Management. Others take a cue, introduce course in Gandhism

 NEW DELHI: An increasing number of Universities and colleges in US are starting courses on Gandhian Thought. About 50 universities and colleges in US have launched courses in Gandhism in the last few years says Savita Singh, Director  of Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti here.

            “The West has reached an extreme stage of development, progress and over-indulgence. Now they are trying to back to simplicity. In this mission, they are looking for the route in Gandhism,” she says.

            Among the leading institutions in America, University of West Virginia, University of Hawaii, George Mason University and many more have started courses.

            Gandhi’s philosophy of peace and non-violence and ‘treat thy neighbour as thy-self’ is the focus of courses offered in these universities. Singh says that Harvard School of Business Management has recognized as the ‘Management Guru’ of 20^th century. “Gandhi was all along a popular figure among the people in the West. He was the product of the West, who later got disillusioned with the West’s culture, which tended to discriminate people on the basis of colour,” she says.

            At the individual level, Bapu has a significant  influence also. Lieah Wells, a scholar of Gandhian Studies, has formed a core group of 10,000 students in California recently to learn and spread Gandhism.

            In Berlin, a school was renamed after Gandhi following demand by the students just two months ago, she remarks. ………………………………..

Appeared in Bombay,India in Mumbai Mirror dated 4^th November,2005