Rennison and I were treated to a wonderful experience during our visit to Grandhigram Rural Institute. We traveled an hour on the bus through beautiful rural areas.
From their website:
And finally, here's a good principle that we should all live by.
"The Gandhigram Rural Institute (GRI) was founded in 1956. With undying faith and deep devotion to Mahatma Gandhi’s revolutionary concept of ‘Nai Talim’ system of education, Gandhigram Rural Institute has developed academic programmes in Rural Development, Rural Economics and Extension Education, Rural Oriented Sciences, Cooperation, Development Administration, Rural Sociology, English and Communicative Studies, and, Tamil and Indian Languages. Students who emerge from its portals tend to meet the personnel needs for rural development under various governmental and non-governmental schemes."
It is always exciting to meet faculty and students who are dedicated to the principles of equality, education, development and service. These principles, among many others, define the legacy of Gandhi in India. As you can see below, Gandhi was concerned that all segments of Indian society share in the prosperity of the country.
As we walked along, lo and behold a wonderful quote by the British writer, E.M. Forster. I'm putting this in my syllabus!
While at Gandhigram, we met with faculty from the department of Gandhian thought as well as the Sociology department.
Here is a list of research projects within the Department of Sociology which students can learn more about when they come.
We had a wonderful lunch at a women's cooperative cafeteria owned by a group local village women.
Scholars deep in thought...
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