Prof Samdhong Rinpoche to Inaugurate Gandhian Varthamanam

Prof Samdhong Rinpoche, former Kalon Tripa will inaugurate and deliver a key note address during the five-day long event at Trichur on October 5, 2011 at 3pm. Shri Narayan Desai who spent about 20 years with Mahatma Gandhi at Sbarmathi Ashram at Sevagram and other places will do a Gandhi Katha (Gandhi Stories) for three hours every day for five days during this event. About 500 activists from the state are expected to attend this five-day event at Salsabeel Green School, Kiraloor, Thrissur.

Mahatma Gandh?'s biography 'My Life is My Message' is set to have a Malayalam translation. The book penned by Narayan Desai, son of Mahatma's Principal Secretary late Mahadev Desai, originally in Gujarati is getting translated to another Indian language for the first time. The book in four volumes will have about 200 pages in A4 size and will have about 2000 pictures associated with Mahatma, some of them very rare ones. The book will be released by Chief Minister Oomen Chandy at a function to be held Gandhi Bhavan, in Thiruvananthapuram on October 3, 2011.

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