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Internet has potential to realise Gandhi's dream: Sudheendra

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 25 2013 | 5:33 AM IST

Kulkarni has tried to wed Gandhi's philosophies with the power of the worldwide web and dared readers to strive via the Internet for development of life as a whole in his book "Music of the Spinning Wheel: Mahatma Gandhi's Manifesto for the Internet Age".

Kulkarni says he has been inspired by the life of Mahatma Gandhi and the simultaneous study of the Internet has led the author to coin the term "Internet Satyagrahis" in the book brought out by Amaryllis publications.

"It is a call to all those readers, who believe even to some extent in the power of the Internet on the one hand and also in the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, to become Internet Satyagrahis," Kulkarni told PTI in an interview.

"The Spinning Wheel (charkha) of Mahatma was not merely just a tool but life transformative

Machine to propagate ideas

and ideals

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First Published: Oct 01 2012 | 12:35 PM IST

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