GANDHIAN IDEALS MORE RELEVANT NOW: ARIYARATNE
Founder president of the Sri
Lanka-based Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement A.T. Ariyaratne inaugurating Gandhi
Week celebrations at Karickam, near Kottarakara, on2nd October,2014, Sunday.
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Award winner and founder president of the Sri Lanka-based Sarvodaya Movement A.T. Ariyaratne has said Gandhian thoughts are gaining more importance
all over the world since those thoughts have the potential to solve many of the
contemporary global problems.He said this during the inauguration the Gandhi
week celebrations organised by the United Religions Initiative (URI) and other
voluntary organisations at Karickam near Kottarakara on Sunday.
Dr.
Ariyaratne, who is also known as Sri Lankan Gandhi, said it was the ideals of
Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru that attracted him to the Sarvodaya movement.
“Gandhiji is like the sun and I am just a candle light before him,” he said.
The function was presided over by the URI Asia region executive secretary,
Abraham Karickam. Director of the Sri Lanka-based Sarvodaya Shanthisena
Movement Ravi Kandage, URI Tamil Nadu chapter chairman Muthu Kumaran, and the
Nilgiri Adivasi Welfare Association secretary M. Alwas, Prof. John Kurakar,
U.R.I Global Council Member, Pravasi Bandhu Ahammed, Matha Gurupreeya, K.O Raju
Kutty, Neelaswaram Sadasivan, Giji P.Mathew,
Susan Abraham, Prof.P.K Varghese ,Fr. O.
Thomas, Mrs.Mariamma Mathew S.V Anila were spoke.
Prof. John Kurakar
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