Gone are the days of gundagiri, everyone is embracing Gandhigiri. The term, made so popular by the Munnabhai, has been welcomed and adopted with open arms. Be it anti-corruption movement with Anna Hazare or protest on India Gate for the brave heart of India, people resorted to Gandhigiri.

The modern take on Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violence is gradually entering into popular imagination and academic discourses too. His writing, running into more than one hundred volumes contains wide range of views on different issues. In the nearly six decades since his death a large and diverse range of writings – comparative, expository, biographical, hagiographical and dialogical – has appeared on Gandhi.

Delhi University’s Ramjas College offers a short term ‘add on’ course on Gandhigiri.

The course focuses attention on issues of continuing relevance – tradition, modernity, nation, women, caste, race and environment – thereby giving the course a contemporary flavour.  The leitmotif of the course promises and promotes a fruitful dialogue with a creative and original thinker whose ideas and practices deserve far more than either adoration or dismissal.

Every generation re-examines the past, trying to understand it anew.  It may be a difference in perspective, or the knowledge of new facts, which alter the picture – sometimes superficially, sometimes totally.  India today is clearly reassessing the legacy of Gandhi, and his continuing relevance.

This course closely examines different interpretations of Gandhi’s view and ideas on myriad issues, and in doing so, it moves beyond existing scholarship.

It provides an essential new reference for students and scholars of politics, history, philosophy as well as general readers, activist and admirers of Gandhi.

The topics included in this course are:
1.       Philosophical and Intellectual Sources of Gandhi’s ideas
2.       Satyagraha
3.       Gandhi, Admbedkar and Untouchability
4.       Gandhi and Women Empowerment
5.       Communal Harmony
6.       Gandhigiri and Conflict Resolution
7.       Gandhi’s Contemporary Relevance
8.       Gandhi and Postmodernism
9.       Film shows on Gandhi

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Many a times we are interested in so many things around. Most of us want to pursue a particular subject but the courses that come along with it look uninteresting to us.

The idea of education has become liberal now. Students can choose from a variety of courses which are not only interesting but also helpful in choosing our career paths in future.

The fad of ‘add on courses’ is new but quite popular. Several Delhi University colleges offer short term add-on courses to help their students broaden their perspective and better their chances of getting employed. However, the courses are available only to the students of the college where they are offered.

Courses in French, Spanish and Russian are already popular on campuses. The new list of courses are more exciting and provide flexibility too.

A look at the various short-term add-on courses being offered by some of the Delhi University colleges:

Lady Sri Ram College for Women

1. Women & the Political Process
2. Legal Literacy for Women
3. Entrepreneurship
4. Sports Journalism & Commentary

Hindu College

1. Actuarial Science

Gargi College

1. Education for Special Children
2. Introduction to Biotechnology & Bioinformatics
3. Vedic Mathematics
4. Banking & Financial Services
5. Advertising & Marketing Communication
6. Counselling Skills
7. Mass Communication

Ramjas College

1. Forensic Science
2. Conflict Resolution
3. Biotechnology
4. Capital Market Programme

So now, one can enjoy studying vedic mathematics with music or take a short term course in sports economics for the cricket fan in them.

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