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Developing closer relations between our two countries is a desirable goal. However, for this to happen on a healthy durable basis, it is necessary that people’s wishes are listened to and their long term interests protected. Selling nuclear components to help facilitate setting up of nuclear power plants is not the way. This is doubly so, when India has not signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and is actively engaged in the production of nuclear weapons. The wellbeing of future generations should not be sacrificed for short term commercial gains.

Narayan Desai is one the very few colleagues of Mahatama Gandhi alive today in India. At an old age of 87, he is an active inspiration for the several non-violennt movements going on in India today for defending peace, justice, communal harmony and democracy. Adopting the traditional form of story-telling, he started performing Gandhi Katha (Gandhi’s Stories) few years back, invariably linking it to contemporary issues faced by the world. Here is a report on his support to the Koodankulam struggle as expressed in the ongoing Gandhi Katha in Madurai, Tamil Nadu: