{"id":126866,"date":"2019-01-28T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=126866"},"modified":"2019-01-27T13:57:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T13:57:03","slug":"james-w-douglass-talks-about-gandhi-and-the-unspeakable-his-final-experiment-with-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/01\/james-w-douglass-talks-about-gandhi-and-the-unspeakable-his-final-experiment-with-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"James W. Douglass Talks about Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiment with Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today India, a country of nearly 1.4 billion people, nearly a fifth of the world\u2019s population, is a nuclear armed state ruled by leaders who have vociferously rejected the nonviolent legacy of Gandhi, the leader of India\u2019s independence movement and the Father of the Nation.\u00a0 When he was assassinated on January 30, 1948, his death sent shockwaves especially throughout the Hindu and Muslim worlds because his mighty efforts to create peace between them were stilled.\u00a0 Today, India and Pakistan and the whole world live with its implications and the nuclear weapons brandished by leaders devoted to violence as a means of control and the method for resolving disputes.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the spirit of Gandhi\u2019s nonviolent experiments with truth live throughout the world in individuals and groups intent on de-nuclearizing the world and resolving conflicts nonviolently.\u00a0 The writer and peace-activist James Douglass, a guide to such experiments with truth and author of many books on nonviolence and the meaning of political assassinations, including his profound <em>JFK And The Unspeakable: Why He Died &amp; Why It Matters, <\/em>recently travelled to Gandhi\u2019s home district in India and delivered the following talk in conjunction with the translation into Gujarati by Gandhi\u2019s great-great-granddaughter, Sonalben Parikh, of his book, <em>Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiment With Truth <\/em>by Yanja Prakashan (\u201cSacred Fire\u201d) publisher<em>.\u00a0 <\/em>His important talk begins 26:58 minutes into the following video, after initial remarks about the book in Gujarati by Sonalben Parikh.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YqFu9GeX-To<br \/>\n<em>Edward Curtin is a writer whose work has appeared widely. He is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a> and teaches sociology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. His website is <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/edwardcurtin.com\/\" ><em>http:\/\/edwardcurtin.com\/<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948 but the spirit of his nonviolent experiments with truth live throughout the world in individuals and groups.  The writer and peace-activist James Douglass, a guide to such experiments with truth and author of many books on nonviolence and the meaning of political assassinations, recently travelled to Gandhi\u2019s home district in India and delivered the following talk. It begins at 26:58 minutes into the video. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}