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Tagore - Gandhi debates - Coggle Diagram
Tagore - Gandhi debates
Shantiniketan
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It became a university, Viswabharati in 1921
Charkha
Tagore
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Parable of a Vina Maker. Master shouldn't say that take a wood, put a string and all would be okay. Needs to explain the complexities.
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Cloth burning. It is a matter of economics not morality. Instead of covering our naked people with cloth we are blindly burning them
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Vishnu's chakra denotes progress. By sticking to charkha we are denying science, an instrument of Vishnu
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Gandhi
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In tough situations, we have to give up our usual professions for something bigger
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By burning foreign clothes, I burn my shame. I refuse to give them clothes but I give them work instead.
Styles
Respect for each other
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Rt sent a response to Gandhi. Asked him to publish it if what Gandhi originally wrote was true. Trust.
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Gandhi's bhakts criticised Tagore harshly, Gandhi didn't
debate between sudents on both views that Rt presided on. Gndhi won. RT acknowledged that education has won.
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Caste
Side point: Tagore vehemently opposed casteism but in Shantiniketan students refused to interdine until 1915. He didn't want to force this. Gandhi came and convinced people.
Uniformity being imposed is a hallmark of caste. That has led to repetition but not excellence. "burdened with a vocation that makesno allowance for variation in human nature. "
Fasting
Tagore: if every good person fasts to remove evil of others, all good persons will die
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Reason
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Tagore:
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imposing any thought (like charkha) on people can produce expedient results but in the end it is about surrendering reason
It is my belief that all civilisations have come to death whenmind of majority gets killed by some pressure of minority. for the truest ealth of man is mind
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Freedom
Tagore
We have to earn the freedom. To earn it we have to prove that we are morally superior to The British govt.
India should fight for freedom of entire humanity. We are materially poor but morally and spiritually rich.
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