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Human rights (letters to editor)

Human rights (letters to editor)

Author: Adhir Banerjee, Mumbai
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: August 28, 2000

Sir Soon after World War II ended, H. G. Wells invited Gandhiji to attend the first world conference on human rights to be held in Paris. Gandhiji politely declined, saying he understood duties but not rights H.G. Wells wrote back that if rights were taken care. Of , duties would be automatically taken care of. Gandhiji did not reply.

Today we see that most countries, people and groups are very loud about rights but conspicuously silent about duties. And the louder the demand for rights, the greater the fights. Indians too seem to have forgotten that duties do not flow from rights but from dharma, a concept alliance to western thinking. And this dharma is not even the same for all people.
 


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