Tag: ahimsa
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Wembley based Vivek Gaurav’s pragmatic environmental activism
29 year old Vivek (instagram: @theplogman) from Pune, India, now based in North London, is an environmental activism who leads the world’s largest community of ‘ploggers’. The concept started in Sweden in 2016, the word Plogging is made up of the Swedish jogga (jogging) and plocka up (a pick-up). Plogging is form of litter picking where people…
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1516 – Andrea Corsali and Ahimsa
Italian explorer Andrea Corsali references Gujaratis & the Hindu concept of Ahimsa in a letter Andrea Corsali worked for the Florentine Giuliano di Lorenzo de’ Medici, one of the wealthiest Italian families. The Medici dynasty had become famous through its trade routes and never ignored any new trade routes. Corsali was financed by the family…