{"id":3467,"date":"2022-08-04T10:22:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy\/?page_id=3467"},"modified":"2022-08-04T10:27:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:27:34","slug":"rajni-bakshi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/rajni-bakshi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajni Bakshi"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3467\" class=\"elementor elementor-3467\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-78cce01c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"78cce01c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3c1f782a\" data-id=\"3c1f782a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1591c7d9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1591c7d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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elementor - v3.10.1 - 17-01-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\"><b>Author and Founder of Ahimsa Conversations<\/b><\/p><p class=\"p1\">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.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">Her other books include Long Haul: the Bombay Textile Workers Strike 1982-83 (1986), A Warning and an Opportunity: the Dispute over Swami Vivekananda\u2019s Legacy (1994), Let\u2019s 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).<\/p><p class=\"p1\">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 &amp; Bangalore). <b>In January 2020 Rajni founded a Youtube channel &#8220;Ahimsa Conversations&#8221; 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. <\/b><\/p><p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rajni_Bakshi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rajni_Bakshi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2fe1178 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2fe1178\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0a5fe38\" data-id=\"0a5fe38\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b528a11 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2b528a11\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Copyrights \u00a9 2022. 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She has authored Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom: for a market culture beyond&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/rajni-bakshi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rajni Bakshi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3467\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trif.in\/india-rural-colloquy-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}