A grain of salt - Influences on Gandhi
Charcoal and acrylic on paper 20x28 inches each These works are centred around people and events that shaped Gandhi’s thinking. It consists of charcoal drawings of eminent thinkers who influenced him. There is also a work that depicts the turning point in Gandhi’s life - an episode in South Africa when he was the target of racism.
The Independence of India A few personalities: Nehru,Jinnah, Sardar Patel, Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu, Bose, Mountbatten Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) Gandhi was deeply impressed by Tolstoy’s “The kingdom of God is within you” He corresponded extensively with Tolstoy and in 1910 started “Tolstoy Farm” in Transvaal, South Africa. Tolstoy Farm was the headquarter for Satyagraha - a non violent movement Churchill and Gandhi Churchill and Gandhi never saw eye to eye. Churchill won the Second World War for Britain and Gandhi the freedom of India from Britain. Both men achieved their dreams. Churchill subsequently lost power and immersed himself in painting. Gandhi believed that “True art must help the soul realise its inner self ” His vision lives on.The statues of both these men stand tall in London’s parliament square next to each other. Srimad RajChandra ji (1867-1901) Gandhi met the diamond merchant Srimad RajChandra ji in 1891. In his first meeting he impressed Gandhi as being a truly enlightened soul. In a speech at Ahmedabad in 1927 GandhI said- “ I have often declared that I have learnt, and learn much from the lives of many persons. But it it from Kavishri’s life that I have learnt the most. It was from his life that I understood the way of compassion.” |