Work among Naxalites of Dharmapuri

    During 1981-82, he camped and organized a Peace Program for two months in Dharmapuri District in Tamilnadu when that whole district was rocked by prolonged armed conflict involving Naxalites and peasants.

    Peace work during Inter-religious disturbance in several parts  of Tamilnadu

    He participated in peace initiatives during the inter-religious and inter-communal conflicts at Villupuram and Mandaikadu in Tamilnadu, in Thiruavananthapuram in Kerala etc. during 1984-86.

    Youth camps and community singing in Hoshiarpur (Punjab) and in Tripura and Assam

    He undertook a two-month program of chorus singing and visits to the Universities in Amritsar, Jalandhar and Hosiarpur in Punjab, Tripura and Assam in 1984, 89 and 90 to educate young men on the need of developing nonviolent alternatives.

    Bringing peace in a village in Dindigul district

    A team led by Prof. Radhakrishnan and guided by Shri Devendra Kumar, then Vice-Chancellor of Gandhigram Rural Institute, which adopted Vellode, a village in Anna District, Tamilnadu which had been the scene of regular and prolonged communal tension between Hindus and Christians for the last 20 years and, in less than six months, a Peace Committee was formed in the village and a peace accord signed thus ending the 20 year old tension between the two religious groups.
     

    During the Gujarat earthquake

    he camped in Ahamadabad and in the Bhuj areas for two weeks assisting in the rehabilitation work under the combined auspices of voluntary organizations. He also assisted the Sarvodaya group of activists in Ahamadabad in raising national and international funds for rehabilitation.

    Communal disturbance in Gujarat: He also rendered service in the Himmatnagar region during and after the Godhra tragedy, assisting both the civil authorities and voluntary organizations by mobilizing medical supplies, raising funds for rehabilitation of victims.

     

     

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