Last night’s book launch in Ahmedabad was at Vidyapith Gujarat, a university founded by Gandhi in 1920. My publisher, Yagna Prakashan has a small office there. A gardener gave lovely directions: “It is on the left under a picture of Vinoba Bhave.”
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Vinoba Bhave, byname of Vinayak Narahari Bhave, (born September 11, 1895, Gagode, Bombay Presidency [now in Maharashtra], India—died November 15, 1982, Wardha, Maharashtra), one of India’s best-known social reformers and a widely venerated disciple of Mohandas K. Mahatma Gandhi
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
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