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Show Description:
On this special Inquiry, we speak with RAJMOHAN GANDHI, Research Professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champlain. Professor Gandhi is also a former member of the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of the Indian parliament and has written a definitive biography of the dynamic Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma GANDHI:THE MAN, HIS PEOPLE AND THE EMPIRE. Tonight we talk about Gandhi’s beginnings in Porbandar, his early trips to England and South Africa, and how his experiences there helped him formulate the concept of “satyagraha”. “firmness for the good”, passive resistance and Hind Swaraj, “home rule”.
Is birding merely “sanctioned voyeurism?” Inquiry spends some time with writer, essayist and editor JONATHAN ROSEN talking about his new book THE LIFE OF THE SKIES: BIRDING AT THE END OF NATURE. In this very literate birding book, Rosen searches for the real meaning that lurks behind our impulse to watch and list birds. This is a thoughtful voyage of discovery that takes Rosen from watching spring migrants in Central Park, New York City to watching Hume’s Tawny Owl in Israel, quoting from Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau and the story of Baal Shem Tov along the way.Air Date and Time:
Sunday the 24th at 9pm
