STORRS, CT — Ela Gandhi, a peace activist and former member of Parliament in South Africa from 1994 to 2004, will deliver the fifth annual Mahavir Ahimsa/Nonviolence and Asian American Heritage Observance Month keynote address, “The Crises of the 21st Century–Some Gandhian Solutions.”
The talk will take place at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, in the Student Union Theatre.
During apartheid, Ms. Gandhi was banned from political activism and subjected to house arrest for nine years. In Parliament, she aligned with the African National Congress party and represented the area of her birth in the KwaZulu Natal province near Durban.
The granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, she founded the Gandhi Development Trust; developed a 24-hour program against domestic violence; and currently serves as chancellor of Durban University of Technology.
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