Achievements

Exhibitions on the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi

Design of 13 exhibitions on Mahatma Gandhi, presented over 70 times in Germany, Denmark, England, Israel and India.

A selection of exhibitions panels

  • My Life is My Message - German, 1984 PIC
  • My Life is My Message - German, 1984 (minor exhibit) PIC
  • My Life is My Message - German, 1987 PIC
  • My Life is My Message - English, Hebrew, Arabic, 1987 PIC
  • MAHATMA - Images of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 2002 WWW
  • Mahatma Gandhi - Travelling by Train, 2003 WWW
  • Rare Moments With Bapu - From the Dustbin of Mahatma Gandhi's Personal Photographer, 2005 

A selection of exhibition presentations

  • First major exhibition on the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi in Berlin, Germany, 30 January - 31 March 1984. VID VID PIC
  • Protestant Church Day, Duesseldorf, Germany, 1984 PIC
  • Antikriegshaus Sievershausen, Germany, 1 - 30 September 1984 PIC
  • Airport Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany, 1984 PIC
  • Indischer Verein Bharat Majlis, Berlin, Germany, 2 - 15 November 1984 PIC
  • Volkshochschule Schoeneberg, Berlin, Germany, 24 September - 30 October 1984 PIC
  • Adolf-Reichwein-Schule, Berlin-Schoeneberg, Germany, 29 May - 12 June 1985 PIC
  • Copenhagen, Denmark, 1985 PIC
  • Stadtbuecherei Schoeneberg, Berlin, Germany, 18 November - 13 December 1985
  • Book Fair Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1986 PIC
  • Congress Centrum Wuerzburg, Germany, 4 - 10 June 1986 PIC
  • India Night, Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany, 28 June 1986 PIC
  • Indische Mensawochen, 1986, TU/FU/TFH, Berlin, Germany PIC
  • Major exhibition at the Ecomenical Center of Tantur, between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Israel, 13 October - 10 November 1987 WWW
  • My Life is my Message - Mi Vida es mi Mensaje, Madrid, Spain, 2008 and Valladolid, Spain, 2009 WWW
  • Photo exhibition "Mahatma Gandhi's life in colour" during the Sarvodaya Conference, New Delhi, 2015 VID

Books

 

AUTHORED

  • Gandhi and I - An Autobiography (2020) WWW
  • Gandhi und ich - Eine Autobiografie (German, 2020) WWW
  • Mahatma Gandhi on Terrorism and War (176 pages, 2006) PDF
  • Mahatma Gandhi's Peace March to Bihar 1947 - A photographers account (89 pages, 2006) PDF
  • Gandhi - A Photo biography, published by Phaidon Press, London/New York, 2001. WWW VID
  • In the Footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi in India (282 pages, 1995/2009) PDF

CO-AUTHORED

  • Co-author of the book My Life Is My Message - Das Leben and Wirken von M.K. Gandhi (German), 1984/1988. WWW 
  • MAHATMA - Gandhi’s Life in Colour (published by GandhiServe India, 2016) WWW

EDITED

  • Mahatma Gandhi - Our Father (by Abha and Kanu Gandhi, 191 pages, 2006) PDF
  • My Childhood with Mahatma Gandhi (by Prabhudas Gandhi, 305 pages, 2004) PDF
  • The History of the Gandhi Family (by Prabhudas Gandhi, 43 pages, 1999) PDF

Films

  • Consultant to ORF (Austrian TV) for a TV program on Gandhi, Mirabehn, the Chipko movement, and ecology in the Himalaya region (Bäume umarmen - Hugging Trees), 1985. VID
  • Consultant to ZDF/3SAT (German TV) for a 3-hours TV programme, on Gandhi, 1987. VID
  • Consultant to ZDF (German TV) for a TV quiz on Gandhi, 1988. VID
  • Director research for a documentary TV serial on Gandhi directed by Ketan Mehta, Mumbai, 1997.
  • Consultant to the BBC TV documentary The World's Most Photographed - Mahatma Gandhi, 2004. VID
  • Consultant to the feature film Gandhi My Father, 2005. WWW VID

Audio-visual

  • Direction and production of the audio visual show NAMASTÉ - A Journey Across India Following The Footprints Of Mahatma Gandhi in Hindi VID, English VID and German VID language, 1998. WWW
  • Direction of 60-minutes audio visual show MY LIFE IS MY MESSAGE - The life and work of Mahatma Gandhi in English, Hindi and German, 2018 WWW

Performing Arts

  • Consultant to the theater play SAMMY! - The Word That Broke An Empire, 2003. WWW
  • Consultant to Gandhi the musical, 2007. VID

Research

  • Preparation of an extensive photo archive on Gandhi and India's independence movement, 1988 - 1994. WWW
  • Promotion of Search-n-Research in India, a countrywide project for the identification and conservation of original material on and by Mahatma Gandhi, 1999. 

Internet

  • Design and administration of the most extensive web site on Mahatma Gandhi, GandhiServe's Mahatma Gandhi Research and Media Service, 1998 - dato. WWW
  • Creation of GandhiTopia, a Gandhian social network, 2009. WWW 
  • Planning, design and production of GandhiMedia, GandhiServe's digital media archive, 2011. WWW
  • Design and administration of the website of the multinational Gandhiserve network. WWW

Institutions

  • Establishment of Gandhi Information Center, Berlin, 1983 (chairperson from 1983 to 1992). PIC
  • Establishment of the not-for-profit company GandhiServe e.K. in Germany, 1998.
  • Establishment of the charitable GandhiServe Foundation in Berlin, Germany, 2002. WWW

Awards

  • Award for life work by the Gujarati Writers' Association, Rajkot, 1992. PDF PDF
  • Award Photographer of the Year by Dinodia Picture Agency, Mumbai, 1996. WWW

Miscellaneous

  • Oral history about Mahatma Gandhi and India's independence movement. WWW 
  • Consultant to owners of original material on and about Mahatma Gandhi for its preservation and accessibility. WWW
  • Established tour guide to India in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi, 1987 - dato. VID VID VID PIC
  • Initiation and coordination of GandhiServe's Earthquake Relief Campaign in Gujarat, 2001. PIC
  • Establishment and promotion of the International youth project The Gandhi Bridge of Understanding, 1991 - 2007. WWW
  • Consultant to various media projects on Gandhi all over the world, such as TV and broadcast programs, films, CD-ROMs, exhibitions, CDs, records, web sites, publications and audio visual shows.

Positions