Hind SwarajMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Hind Swaraj
by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi · first published 2009
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…patronising or racist to say that India needs to follow a different model of development than the western one. In fact, that idea was central to the Gandhian independence struggle - just read the great man's Hind Swaraj! There are many reasons for doing so. For one, we don't have colonies we can screw over - i.e., India's India - while enriching ourselves. Assuming we would want to do that at all. We also don't have…
on “Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European markets” ↗Good effort. I doubt if real life Gandhi would be like this character though. In Hind Swaraj, Gandhi talks about banning railways and vaccines..
on “When Gandhi Met Satoshi” ↗This piece reminded me, of all things, of Gandhi's essay "Hind Swaraj." He was pretty anti-technological-driven change. He was anti: - Machinery replacing handicraft (skill disappeared and poverty followed) - Labor-saving machines replacing human workers (workers became…
on “Is mathematics over, or just graduating?” ↗…understand the things I mentioned just now weren’t around in 1908 when Gandhi wrote that essay but who knows what advancements modern AI could bring that we can’t imagine now? https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/hind_swaraj.pdf This is a PDF of that Gandhi book. Under the “A Word of Explanation” you find Gandhi saying he would welcome the natural destruction of hospitals and railways.
on “Is mathematics over, or just graduating?” ↗I disagree his arguments are timeless. https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/hind_swaraj.pdf I posted more in another comment on this thread but here’s a PDF of his book. Gandhi says in the “A Word of Explanation” section that he would welcome the natural destruction of hospitals. How is…
on “Is mathematics over, or just graduating?” ↗…starved if I am excluded from the Editorship of the Daily Mail," or words to that effect."[0] On reading this, Gandhi "immediately translated it into Gujarati, and on the basis of it he wrote his book Hind Swaraj, his own first formulation of a specifically "Indian" solution to his country’s problems. Thus you might argue, not quite absurdly, that India owed its independence, or at least the manner in which it…
on “Reading Gandhi Reading” ↗