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.