mahātma
My life is my message
Mahatma Award
Mahatma Award is our tribute to Mahatma Gandhi ji to spread his message of selfless services, peace and love across the world. ‘Mahatma Award’ honor and acknowledge the most accomplished socially responsible efforts and initiatives within the public, private, and development sector, from sustainability to philanthropy to shared value to corporate social responsibility.
About Award
The awardees recognized are addressing the incredibly complex and equally severe problems, we face today in our society. Their efforts span global poverty and hunger, disease, education, livelihood, climate change, rural development, covid-19 humanitarian aid, disaster response, preparedness, and health care accessibility and much more. Mahatma Award recognize and celebrate impact leaders and change makers across the globe, who are making social impact and leading the way to just, equitable and a sustainable future.
The annual Award has honored the most accomplished social and community initiatives within the private and public sector. Mahatma Award honor individuals and organizations that leverage their resources, expertise, and talent to make a positive impact for larger good. The Mahatma Award exist to put a spotlight on the most remarkable change makers of our time.
The Mahatma Award is instituted by our founder Amit Sachdeva as his tribute to Mahatma Gandhi ji to spread his message of selfless services and love across the world. The award supported by Mrs. Rajashree Birla ji, Chairperson, Aditya Birla Group Community Initiative and Rural Development and Aditya Birla Group.
Mahatma Press
Mahatma Press is our tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, a step forward to take forward his message of Peace, Non-violence Truth and Love across the globe through printing and publishing. The press in India manage the printing work of many nonprofit organizations and corporate foundations across the globe to generate revenue and proceed from the the profit generated goes into spreading the message of Mahatma Gandhi through books and periodicals.
About Mahatma Press
A little known aspect of the Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi story in South Africa. It tackles the subject of running a printing press and spreading the message of Satyagraha or passive resistance through the medium of the printed word. Gandhi ji in 1898 in Durban established his International Printing Press. The purpose of a private press was to print pamphlets, periodicals and a newspaper. The objective was to educate and shape public opinion in support of the struggle for Indian rights led by Gandhi.
The South African experience was a critical and formative part of shaping the tactics and underlying philosophy that sought to fight for the rights of Indians in the British Empire. Owning, and applying a printing press as a weapon became part of the passive resistance armoury. Gandhi, the immigrant lawyer to Natal, later migrant to the Transvaal, turned into a propagandist, philosopher, writer, thinker, journalist and politician armed with the printed word. He wrote to sell his ideas and to draw people into his world.
The International Printing press offered printing services in ten languages and seven different scripts. That alone was a remarkable feat for the period. Indian Opinion initially appeared in four languages (English Gujarati, Tamil and Hindi.) It was more than a newspaper, it was a journal, a periodical and a political tract. All print vehicles and media were enlisted to convey the message.
Mahatma Press is our initiative to take forward the agenda of Mahatma Gandhi through printing and publishing.
Mahatma School
Mahatma School is situated in Dehradun, which is located in the Doon Valley on the foothills of the Himalayas nestled between Song river, a tributary of Ganga on the east and the Asan river, a tributary of Yamuna on the west. The city is known as the education capital of India. An
interdisciplinary centre focusing on research and studies on Gandhian Thought Non-violence and Peace.
Mahatma School of Peace and Justice
Mahatma School is situated in Dehradun, which is located in the Doon Valley on the foothills of the Himalayas nestled between Song river, a tributary of Ganga on the east and the Asan river, a tributary of Yamuna on the west. The city is known as the education capital of India.
Mahatma School is an interdisciplinary centre focusing on research and studies on Gandhian Thought Non-violence and Peace. The Centre offers many workshops and training programs, and major thrust areas of research and studies includes different aspects of Gandhian thought i.e., Satyagraha, Sarvodaya, Swaraj, Ahimsa/Peace, Conflict Resolution, Movements, Democracy, Gandhian Philosophy, Environment movements, peace movements, Decentralisation, Gram Swaraj, Movements, Alternative economic models, and non-violent struggles.
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