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Looking For Gandhi In Banda: In An Era Of Lynchings, What Relevance Does Mahatma Hold?

Netaji Subhas Bose with Mahatma Gandhi at an Indian National Congress meet. Image source: Wikipedia

Khabar Lahariya Chief Reporter Meera Devi visited schools across the district of Banda in Bundelkhand, looking for Gandhi amongst school textbooks, minds, and hearts. What happens of those grand ideals, which we celebrate duly ever year on October 2? Are they relevant anymore? How do you grapple with non-violence in the era of lynchings and shoot-outs, to which Uttar Pradesh has been no stranger? Especially when most of your encounters of Gandhi, are plastered across walls, as Swachch Bharat posters?

Watch students studying in government and private schools, across the grades, their teachers, headmasters, principals, and the keepers of the education system, talk Gandhi in rural UP, this Gandhi Jayanti.

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