Speaker

Author and Founder of Ahimsa Conversations

Rajni is a public intellectual, author and regular columnist in mainstream media, prolifically writing on social and political developments in contemporary India. She has authored Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom: for a market culture beyond greed and fear (Penguin, 2009); Bapu Kuti: Journeys in Rediscovery of Gandhi (Penguin, 1998) which among others inspired the Hindi film Swades.

Her other books include Long Haul: the Bombay Textile Workers Strike 1982-83 (1986), A Warning and an Opportunity: the Dispute over Swami Vivekananda’s Legacy (1994), Let’s Make it Happen: a backgrounder on New Economics (2003) and An Economics for Well-Being (2007). She is Former Gandhi Peace Fellow at Gateway House from 2011 to 2017. She serves on the Boards of Child Rights and You (CRY), Citizens for Peace and the Centre of Education and Documentation (CED).

She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Culture and a long-term associate of Centre of Education and Documentation (Mumbai & Bangalore). In January 2020 Rajni founded a Youtube channel “Ahimsa Conversations” for reflections on the nature of violence and the possibilities for nonviolence. The channel has so far published 232 videos, which include 108 conversations with speakers from 24 countries.

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