On April 19, 1954, at a meeting in Gaya, Jayaprakash made the dramatic announcement of dedicating his life (jeewan daan) to Vinoba Bhave's Sarvodaya movement. He renounced all self-interest, gave up his ...

Gandhi and I-- Personal Recollections: Under what conditions is the use of violence justified? Free and open to the public. Narayan Desai spent the first 23 years of his life in Gandhi Ashram ...

OPEN LETTER TO MRS. INDIRA GANDHI Jayaprakash Narayan On June 12, 1975, the High Court of Allahabad ruled that then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was guilty of corruption during her last election ...

We in the Sarvodaya movement emphasise the initiative of the people — the Lokashakti as against the Rajashakti (the power of the State).

A fire rages in my breast when I see the present state of our country, but I know that violence will not serve any purpose. We will have to go ahead with the help of nonviolence where all legal remedies ...

Only those who have no faith or confidence in the people or are unable to win the people’s confidence take to violent means. Violence becomes superfluous and harmful where Lokashakti has been aroused, ...

Democracy cannot be made secure and strong without peace. Peace and democracy are the two sides of a coin. Neither of them can survive without the other.

You will tell me that this endless insistence on peaceful means is our Gandhian fad. But let me tell you that no such thing is being foisted on you. It is the strategy of the people’s struggle that dictates ...

Those people who still believe that power and party-politics will be able to do some good are only sucking dry bones. This kind of politics is disintegrating and will continue to do so till one day the ...

Our means of peaceful settlement like negotiations across the table, good offices, adjudication, arbitration, friendship march and similar methods may succeed, or may fail - but there is no failure for ...