Hyderabad: In his entire life, Mahatma Gandhi strove for a friendship and brotherhood between different religious communities, in particular Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs, and always wanted an Indian where communal divides would not exist and equality and non-discrimination on the basis of religion were guaranteed, said K. Ramachandra Murthy, senior journalist and advisor to government of Andhra Pradesh, at a seminar in the city on Wednesday.
The two-day seminar, organised by the Vishwandha Sahithya Pitham, explored several threads of literary theory, problems of translation, and analysed works by and on Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Balgangadhar Tilak, and the Telugu literary icon, Vishwanatha Satyanarayana.
Vice-President, M. Venkaiah Naidu, who was chief guest, gave away several awards to writers and translators, and congratulated them.
In their addresses, different senior journalists including Ch Rajeshver Rao, Pasham Yadgiri, and author Dr V. Kondal Rao, stressed on the need to take Gandhian values to youth today to ensure a bright future for the country.
