Swaraj as Blossoming: Compassion, Confrontation and a New Art of Integration

Abstract. The article seeks a new way of co-walking with Gandhi and his epochal Hind Swaraj. It seeks to reconstitute and realize Swaraj not only as self-rule but also as blossoming of self, other and the world. An uncritical and mechanical rendering of Swaraj as self-rule does not address the problem that self-rule is not always accompanied by visions and practices of co-determination, co…