The Peace walk by Satish Kumar

Satish Kumar

Have you ever heard of the man who walked all the way from India through four countries barefooted for a pacifist act he called a “Peace Walk”. The idea was to prevent the use of nuclear weapons. So he walked from India with some companions through the four nuclear armed countries (Washington, London, Paris and Moscow). Based on my ideology of Satish’s empathy, the reason behind this walk was achieved temporarily and we know the balderdash (nonsense) rant between North Korea vs. Trump charade. He is one of those pacifist (a person against war) that the world truly needs right now. Defending the whole criticism against him that his Peace walk was futile, he gave one of the best heartfelt replies ever:

“Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me "unrealistic" to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.”

He was partially right, realist have a more horizontal thinking line which led to destroying virtually all ecological echelon. Being realistic is much closer to standard pessimism, i.e. downplaying the good things and seeing the bad as inevitable. There has to be flexibility of the rules, this is when equality supersedes equity.

FACTS ABOUT THE ICON

NAME: SATISH KUMAR

DATE OF BIRTH: 9 August 1936.

OCCUPATION: EDITOR

AWARDS: (Honorary Doctorate in Education, Plymouth University); (Honorary Doctorate in Literature, University of Lancaster); (Honorary Doctorate in Law, University of Exeter; Jamnalal Bajaj International Award)

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You can also check out one of the books he edited: You Are, Therefore I Am: A Declaration of Dependence (2002)

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