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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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