Listen "Tridip Suhrud: Working With Hands: Materiality and Gandhi's Political Imagination"
Episode Synopsis
Dr Tridip Suhrud, is a renowned scholar of Gandhi Studies, and is currently the provost of CEPT University. His body of work includes several projects on the life and thoughts of Gandhi, the social and cultural history of modern Gujarat, and translations of various literary and social science texts in Gujarati and English. Dr. Suhrud was earlier associated with the Sabarmati Ashram Preservation Trust as its Director.
In this podcast, Dr. Suhrud talks about Gandhi's engagement with the material world and attendant issues of societal hierarchies. To Gandhi, working with hands was not a mere symbolic act but central to the way of living. Dr. Suhrud explains how Gandhi approached division of labour and technology to pave the way for a permanent economy.
In this podcast, Dr. Suhrud talks about Gandhi's engagement with the material world and attendant issues of societal hierarchies. To Gandhi, working with hands was not a mere symbolic act but central to the way of living. Dr. Suhrud explains how Gandhi approached division of labour and technology to pave the way for a permanent economy.
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