Editor's Note:
If ever the world needed a Mahatma, it is now.
Not a single leader today can map a visionary course for the next millenium. Or recognise the need for a more tolerant world, a world without divides. Instead, a pandemic lust for power and wealth, has ensured a widening of divides. For centuries, xenophobia or fear of 'the other', aversion to the 'unlike-you,' initiated the most vile and oppressive systems in the world: the caste system, race and ethnic discrimination, religious bigotry, gender bias or cultural chauvinism...

Bina Sarkar Ellias
Editor