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Emory University Welcomes Rajmohan Gandhi

A P Kamath in Atlanta

Journalist and author Rajmohan Gandhi, who recently completed a year as a research scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana as a visiting professor, will be a Halle Fellow at Emory University starting early next year.

A research scholar based at the Center for Policy Studies in New Delhi, he has written extensively about the ideals of ahimsa, about his grandfathers Mahatma Gandhi and C Rajagopalachari, and about the communal tensions and conflicts in India.

He will be at Emory for three weeks, from January 24 to February 11, 2000. Gandhi says he would be happy to lecture to classes, meet formally and informally with faculty and schools, give public lectures, participate in seminars, and engage in Emory outreach to other schools and to the Atlanta's South Asian community in particular and the entire community in general.

"He should make an important contribution to the university's programmes on violence, peace, and reconciliation," said Dr Marion Creekmore, a professor at the school. "He will likely attract interest in Atlanta in general both because of the influence his grandfather's philosophy and political tactics had on Martin Luther King Jr, and because of the large and well-organized Indo-American community in the area."

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