Hyderabad:

Prof. Yenisetty Sambasiva Rao has only one dream: Spread Mahatma Gandhi’s principles of peace and non-violence.

And the 72-year-old retired professor from Guntur has been trying relentlessly for nearly a decade to convince the Centre and state governments to establish the county’s first Gandhian university in Guntur.

He has even expressed his willingness to donate his own property- a building worth Rs 3.5 crore- for the purpose.

However, the good professor is now losing his patience. Prof. Rao is planning to donate the amount to China, which incidentally has introduced Gandhi’s lessons for students as young as those in Class I, going all the way up to the university level.

“Violence, terror attacks, communal riots etc., have become the order of the day. Not only India, the entire world is facing these problems. Besides, social values have been degrading. Gandhian ideology is the only solution to these problems. Gandhi’s principles of peace and non-violence have to be propagated by establishing a world-class varsity,” says Prof Rao.

Prof. Rao worked as a Telugu professor in SVKB Colleges in Markapur and VRS and YRN college. Impact of Gandhi on Telugu literature has been his pet topic.

He initiated efforts to set up a Gandhian University in Guntur by floating the Mahatma Gandhi Tatva Vishwavidyalayam Akan-sha Samiti after eliciting moral and financial support from prominent people in Guntur, including Crane Group chairman Grandhi Subba Rao and Guntur MP Rayapati Sambasiva Rao.

source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> News> Current Affairs / DC / by L. Venkat Ram Reddy / November 10th, 2013