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	Clip Id: talk_peter_Rühe_with_prabhudasbhai_gandhi_1988    Length: 27min 00sec    Language: English    Color: Color Date: 1988 January 1    Producer: ZDF / Pramod Mathur    Source: GandhiServe Foundation Title/Description: "India's Independence Movement - Talk with freedom fighter Mr. Prabhudas Gandhi" - Mr. Prabhudas Gandhi has been interviewed by Mr. Peter Rühe (Founder-chairperson of GandhiServe Foundation, http://www.gandhiserve.org) at Kasturba Ashram, near Rajkot/Gujarat, India. The talk covers his involvement in India's independence movement led by Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi, particularly the period from 1900 to 1915 in South Africa. Shot list: Prabhudas Gandhi (grand nephew of Mahatma Gandhi) spinning cotton on foldable charkha (spinning-wheel). Welcome of German group who visits Gujarat in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi. Gives background of Gandhi family in Porbandar. Describes the establishment and atmosphere at Gandhi's Phoenix settlement near Durban, South Africa, where Prabhudas Gandhi grew up with Gandhi and was treated like one of his sons. He went to the settlements school and had to work hard according to John Ruskin's book Unto This Last on whose principles the community was founded and run. The weekly paper Indian Opinion was printed there; describes the production process, especially Gandhi's involvement. Describes how he played with Gandhi's sons and Gandhi in and around the settlement c. 1904 - 1906. Peter Rühe: What did you learn from Gandhi and how do you see his relevance for us today? Prabhudas Gandhi: In his book Hind Swaraj Gandhi wrote down how everybody should become independent. This was our text book. We should prepare our own food and clothing and should stick to truth and be fearless. We should not exploit anyone and not be exploited by anyone; we should be free and bold. Gandhi wanted everybody to be his/her own ruler and have a decentralised village-based industry without unnecessary machinery. As these values goes beyond time and borders they're still relevant today.
	Clip Id: homage_to_prabhudasbhai_gandhi    Length: 10min 57sec    Language: English    Color: Color Date: 2005 October 2    Producer: Peter Rühe / GandhiServe Foundation    Source: GandhiServe Foundation Title/Description: "Homage to Prabhudasbhai Gandhi" - This production gives an audio visual impression of one of Mahatma Gandhi's closest co-workers, his grand nephew Mr. Prabhudas Gandhi, who grew up in Gandhi's Phoenix Settlement in South Africa in the beginning of the 20th Century. He lateron lived and worked with Gandhi in his Sabarmati Ashram nr. Ahmedabad and Sevagram Ashram nr. Wardha. Shot list: Prabhudas Gandhi (PG) comes out of the main building of Kasturba Ashram nr. Rajkot/Gujarat, India, in 1988. Music: Vaishnava Janato. Stills of Prabhudasbhai's life; showing him with Mahatma Ghandi, family and friends, incl. Peter Rühe, Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi, visiting the Taj Mahal and the Gandhi Sangrahalaya at New Delhi; talk with Peter Rühe during the drawing competititon Mahatma Gandhi - As I see him at Rajkot 1993, about the relevance of Gandhi's teachings for us today, especially the young generation; Prabhudas Gandhi spinning on an amber charkha (metal spinning-wheel) and reciting the Bhagavad Gita, 1988. PG: "Bapu's grandfather and my grandfather's grandfather is the same person"; upon PR's question PG describes how life and atmosphere was at Phoenix settlement; PG: "In his book Hind Swaraj Gandhi wrote down how everybody should become independent. This was our text book. We should prepare our own food and clothing and should stick to truth and be fearless. We should not exploit anyone and not be exploited by anyone; we should be free and bold. Gandhi wanted everybody to be his/her own ruler and have a decentralised village-based industry without unnecessary machinery. As these values goes beyond time and borders they're still relevant today; PG spinning on foldable box charkha; PG explains the background of Kirti Mandir, Gandhi's birthpace at Porbandar/Gujarat, to a group of visitors from Germany; PG walks across Kasturba Ashram, music: Raghupati Raghava Rajaram; stills of PG of the video recordings, spinning, with family and his travels with Peter Rühe