This week, Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, visited
campus to work with students in the course REL-295: Gandhi and
Resistance, taught by Tim Dobe, Religious Studies, and Shuchi
Kapila, English. He is a professor at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. On Monday, he gave a talk entitled
“Contemporary Struggles in the Greater Middle East and its
Neighborhood: Is There a Gandhian Perspective?” The S&B’s Lily
Jamaludin spoke with Professor Gandhi.   Rajmohan Gandhi spoke
this week about peace. Photograph by John Brady.  How would you
summarize your talk for students who were unable to attend?  I
refer to some of the conflicts in the greater Middle East area
as well as the South Asian area. I refer to Egypt, Iraq,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, India, Kashmir. My purpose was
not to analyze these conflicts in great detail at all, but what
would these conflicts look like if we were wearing Gandhi’s
spectacles? So how would the world look, or these conflict areas
look, if we were wearing Gandhi