Swagrama Fellowship

Indians as a culture and a country suffered great injustices and tyranny under foreign rule. What distinguishes India, however, is that the character of our resistance movements, and the one which finally culminated in independence led by Mahatma Gandhi, was based on the values that were upheld by an ancient civilization that continues to live even today. This movement, a movement to “recover the self” provided us with an invaluable blueprint to not only liberate the nation from colonial regimes but also to rebuild it. Gandhiji's struggle was for a return to the Indian “self”. It is this quest for the self which marks centuries of history of Indian resistance.