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2009

Ambassador Shrimati Meera Shankar's visit to Mahatma Gandhi Statue

Her Excellency Meera Shankar, Bharat ’s Ambassador to USA , was given a warm “Texas Size” welcome at the Mahatma Gandhi Statue in Hermann Park at 1:15 PM on Friday, July 31, 2009. Read full details of the event.

Shraddhanjali (Memorial Service) to Mahatma Gandhi

1st Ever Tribute to Mahatma Gandhi in Houston on the day his soul parted from earth. Mahatma Gandhi Library in collaboration with a number of organizations such as ICC, India House, Gujarati Sahitya Sarita, Unity Peacemakers and many other organizations commemorated Shraddhanjali to Mahatma Gandhi on Saturday, January 31, 2009. Gandhi ji was assassinated 61 years ago on January 30, 1948. read more...

The program was held at India House located at 8888 W Bellfort St, Houston, TX 77031 from 11 AM to 12 Noon on Saturday, January 31, 2008.

Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948.Click here to read more.

YouTube Video Contest The Peace Support Network is sponsoring a YouTube video contest. Create a short film based on the theme, "Create Peace". Show us your creativity and you could be given the grand prize of $1000 or three runner-up prizes.

All ages, school classrooms, not-for-profit groups, as well as individuals are urged to participate! For More Information Please Visit

Unity Peacemakers to hold "Wisdom of Gandhi" workshop
Unity Peacemakers of Unity Church will its annual Wisdom of Gandhi workshop on four Sundays as follows: Sunday, February 1, 2009, Sunday, February 8, 2009, Sunday, February 15, 2009 and Sunday, February 22, 2009.

The workshop will be held at Unity Church 2929 Unity Drive · Houston, TX 77057. Each session is about 1 1/2 hour long starting at 1 PM.

From someone who has participated in these workshops in the past I can assure that they will be well worth your time. If you want to know the guiding principles which inspired Gandhi and how you can implement them in your own life then please be sure to sign up for these classes.

Booth at celebration of India's Republic Day on Sunday, January 25, 2009
Mahatma Gandhi Library hosted a booth at the celebration of India's Republic Day on Sunday, January 25, 2009. It was quite a busy booth. A large number of visited the booth and have become member of Mahatma Gandhi Library. many of the visitors also acquired many books from the booth.

Many many thanks to Mahatma Gandhi Library members who volunteered their time at the booth. The volunteers at the booth were Deepak Bhatt, Mahesh Gandhi, Rita Kothari, Atul Kothari, Satish Parikh, Jayesh Shah and Vishakha Shah.