{"id":2468,"date":"2002-10-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/10\/10\/2002-10-10-skipping-stones-magazine-celebrates-gandhi\/"},"modified":"2002-10-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-10T12:00:00","slug":"2002-10-10-skipping-stones-magazine-celebrates-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/10\/10\/2002-10-10-skipping-stones-magazine-celebrates-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Skipping Stones Magazine Celebrates Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"mailto:editor@SkippingStones.org.\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>EUGENE, OREGON, October 4, 2002: Skipping Stones, an international, multicultural magazine based in Oregon, celebrated the life of Mahatma Gandhi and his contributions to the world with a multicultural concert on October 2. The theme of the two-hour evening program was: Cultural Diversity, Nonviolence, Gandhi. Peace stories and dances for all ages, and multi-ethnic music that included Hindi and Punjabi spiritual songs, heart-touching Andean music, a classical Indian Raga on Spanish Guitar, and a peace song in Hebrew and English, brought an atmosphere of bliss and peace to a capacity crowd at the First Christian Church in the heart of the city. One of Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s favorite bhajanas, Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram, which was heard countless times during his prayer services in India, was led by Bidyut Das during the program. A two-voice narrative highlighted the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, and how his spirit continues to guide countless social activists as well as alternative publications such as Skipping Stones, which was conceived at a Gandhian Ashram in Gujarat, India, in 1986. During the last 14 years, the magazine has served the children and youth around the world by giving an expression for their creativity and by offering them an international forum for communication. The interfaith tribute to Gandhi was organized by Arun Toke (e-mail at &#8220;source&#8221; above), founder and executive editor of Skipping Stones. A native of India, Mr. Toke, stressed the relevance of Gandhi&#8217;s simplicity, truthfulness, and nonviolent ways in today&#8217;s world.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE EUGENE, OREGON, October 4, 2002: Skipping Stones, an international, multicultural magazine based in Oregon, celebrated the life,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}