POWER OF DIALOGUE

Professor N. Radhakrishnan, Gandhian Scholar and former Director of Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, New Delhi. ( Reproduced below is a conversation Dr. Vedabhyas Kundu, Program Director of GSDS( New Delhi) had with Prof.Neelakanta Radhakrishnan, published recently in the book, Peace and Nonviolence) Vedabhyas Kundu: In your dialogue with eminent peace scholar Daisaku Ikeda in the book Walking with the Mahatma: Gandhi For the Modern Times, Dr. Ikeda succinctly points out, "A master of dialogue, Mahatma Gandhi urged keeping the window of the mind open at all times." Please elaborate on the Gandhian approach to dialogue for peace. N Radhakrishnan: Thank you Dr. Vedabhyas for your reference to the much-talked-about book that grew out of the dialogues Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, President of Soka Gakkai International, and I had over several years in different parts of the world on. Gandhi and contemporary world issues. It is significant that Dr. Ikeda, himself a master of dialo...