Gandhi was right.

And the title of my talk was therefore Indian innovation from Gandhi to Gandhian engineering.

In Pakistan, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari son of President Asif Ali Zardari and the assassinated former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, and grandson of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto recently made his political debut.

In India, Rahul Gandhi is waiting in the wings, preparing to step into the shoes of his great grandfather (Jawaharlal Nehru), grandmother (Indira Gandhi), and father (Rajiv Gandhi).

Time to Bring Mahatma Gandhi Back

The most difficult job is the one that awaits Rahul Gandhi.

Gandhi, too, was a real flawed human being.

I don't believe in words at all.

India and Africa have been linked over the centuries by trade, religion, and post imperial political consciousness.

And that can come only from Gandhian engineering.

Yet Gandhi s truth was essentially his own.

Gandhi and the Non Aligned Movement remain important symbols.

For Gandhi, democracy was a way of life.

But with the assassinations of Indira Gandhi and her son, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Congress disintegrated and has not recovered.

And here is where Gandhi comes in.

So, I call them Gandhi neurons, or empathy neurons.

Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle of nonviolence, was born in 1869.

In the process, he lost a year at school.

Think of Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, or Margaret Thatcher.

As Gandhi said, To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.

As Mahatma Gandhi famously said, You must become the change you wish to see in the world.

500 Indian Rupees note with the image of Mahatma Gandhi.

If food is so scarce, then why hasn't Gandhi died yet?

In response, Gandhi nationalised oil companies in 1973.

If one compares those images with pictures of the young insecure Gandhi dressed as a proper British lawyer, one can see how carefully he understood symbolic communication.

When Richard Attenborough's film Gandhi swept the Oscars in 1983, posters for the film proclaimed that Gandhi s triumph changed the world forever.

Today, Gandhi s insight is being put to the test as never before.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation, and Gandhi furnished the method.

These Gandhian acts of non violent civil disobedience have had an effect.

Well, what about other great leaders? What about Gandhi?

Were Gandhi alive to witness today's communal violence between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat, he would sink into despair.

The early life of Gandhi is not depicted in the film.

National events such as Republic Day, Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti (Gandhi's birthday) are celebrated with great enthusiasm in New Delhi and the rest of India.

And that is why the message is that of Gandhian engineering.

This is the squatter community in Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Bombay, India, what's called Mumbai these days.

Gandhi was held for two years in the Aga Khan Palace in Pune.

Observers expect the young Gandhi to become prime minister within two years.

Some inspirational leaders are not great orators witness Mahatma Gandhi.

Be the change you want to see in the world, said Mahatma Gandhi.

Live each day as if it is your last, said Mahatma Gandhi.

In this year, Gandhi was persuaded to preside over the Congress session to be held in Belgaum.

This legacy connects him to Nelson Mandela...in a sense Mandela completed what Gandhi started.

King later avowed that the Gandhian method of non violent resistance...became the guiding light of our movement.

It helped that India s founding fathers, from Mahatma Gandhi on, were convinced democrats.

And I titled this more from less for more and more people as Gandhian engineering.