The Department of English and Modern European Language University of Lucknow organized a one-day national seminar ‘Gandhi and Literature: Exploring the Ideological Front’ celebrating the sesquicentennial birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, on August 19th , 2019. The inaugural session of the seminar included a welcome address by Prof. Neelam Saran Gour,(Dept. of English, University of Allahabad), and plenary address by prof. S.Z.H. Abidi (Dean,Faculty of Humanities, Integral University).
The seminar aimed at bringing to fore the ideals that Gandhi represents, and offered perspectives on his life, teaching, and ideology. Prof. Gour held that Gandhi ji provided an open-ended platform for all kinds of discussions, holding the umbrella over the opponent in summer shade providing them the space to voice their opinion. Prod. Abidi called Gandhi a great inter-text which was influence by the literary work of the past and in turn influenced the upcoming works.
