The Hindu covers Allen’s talk on Gandhi at university in India
The Hindu covered a talk by University of Maine philosophy professor Doug Allen at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Allen, who also is the distinguished chairman in Gandhian philosophy at IIT Bombay, spoke about the significance of Mahatma Gandhi in India. Allen said the fundamental precepts of Gandhism are more relevant today when caste, class and religious differences are so pronounced, according to the article. “One has to approach Gandhi in a dynamic, open-ended, and selective way,” Allen said. “We need to reinterpret his basic principles in a new creative voice that speaks to India in 2016.”