The year 2026 is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by the United States of America, a year its current president has chosen to mark by launching a war on Iran. So this is a perfect moment to savour Satish Kumar’s latest book, Peace is Possible. The poignancy is made even greater because this new volume is a collection of three of his previous works: You Are, Therefore I Am (neatly subtitled ‘A Declaration of Dependence’), Pilgrimage for Peace and The Buddha and the Terrorist.

Satish is, of course, well known and loved ...

 

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