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	'''Satish Kumar''' (born 9 August 1936)<ref name=belief /> is an [[Indian British]] activist and speaker. He has been a [[Jainism\|Jain monk]], nuclear disarmament advocate and pacifist<ref name="ocala">{{cite news \|title=Indian Pacifist Preaches Guerrilla War on Violence \|first=Tom A. \|last=Cullen \|newspaper=[[Star-Banner]] \|publisher=[[Halifax Media Group]] \|location=[[Ocala, Florida]], United States \|issn=0163-3201 \|date=19 May 1969 \|page=8 \|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19690516&id=2T0xAAAAIBAJ&pg=6823,2947808}}</ref>''.'' Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the [[Schumacher College]] international ~~centre~~ for ecological studies, and is Editor Emeritus of ''[[Resurgence & Ecologist]]'' magazine. His most notable accomplishment is the completion, together with a companion, E. P. Menon, of a [[peace walk]] of over 8,000 miles in 1973–4, from [[New Delhi]] to [[Moscow]], [[Paris]], [[London]], and [[Washington, D.C.]], the capitals of the world's earliest nuclear-armed countries.<ref>{{cite news\| url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/jan/16/activists \| work=The Guardian \| location=London \| title=Soul man \| first=John \| last=Vidal \| date=16 January 2008 \| access-date=23 May 2010}}</ref> He insists that reverence for nature should be at the heart of every political and social debate.		'''Satish Kumar''' (born 9 August 1936)<ref name=belief /> is an [[Indian British]] activist and speaker. He has been a [[Jainism\|Jain monk]], nuclear disarmament advocate and pacifist<ref name="ocala">{{cite news \|title=Indian Pacifist Preaches Guerrilla War on Violence \|first=Tom A. \|last=Cullen \|newspaper=[[Star-Banner]] \|publisher=[[Halifax Media Group]] \|location=[[Ocala, Florida]], United States \|issn=0163-3201 \|date=19 May 1969 \|page=8 \|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19690516&id=2T0xAAAAIBAJ&pg=6823,2947808}}</ref>''.'' Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the [[Schumacher College]] international center for ecological studies, and is Editor Emeritus of ''[[Resurgence & Ecologist]]'' magazine. His most notable accomplishment is the completion, together with a companion, E. P. Menon, of a [[peace walk]] of over 8,000 miles in 1973–4, from [[New Delhi]] to [[Moscow]], [[Paris]], [[London]], and [[Washington, D.C.]], the capitals of the world's earliest nuclear-armed countries.<ref>{{cite news\| url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/jan/16/activists \| work=The Guardian \| location=London \| title=Soul man \| first=John \| last=Vidal \| date=16 January 2008 \| access-date=23 May 2010}}</ref> He insists that reverence for nature should be at the heart of every political and social debate.

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	=== ''We Are One'' ===		=== ''We Are One'' ===
	Kumar was one of the contributors for writing the book, ''We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples'', released in October 2009.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/4981 \|title='We Are One: a celebration of tribal peoples' published this autumn \|publisher=Survival International \|date=16 October 2009 \|access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref> The book explores the culture of peoples around the world, portraying both its diversity and the threats it faces. It contains a collection of statements from tribal people, photographs, and essays from international authors, campaigners, politicians, philosophers, poets, artists, journalists, anthropologists, environmentalists and photojournalists. The royalties from the sale of this book go to the indigenous rights ~~organisation~~, [[Survival International]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/weareone \|title=We Are One \|publisher=Survival International \|access-date=9 February 2014}}</ref>		Kumar was one of the contributors for writing the book, ''We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples'', released in October 2009.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/4981 \|title='We Are One: a celebration of tribal peoples' published this autumn \|publisher=Survival International \|date=16 October 2009 \|access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref> The book explores the culture of peoples around the world, portraying both its diversity and the threats it faces. It contains a collection of statements from tribal people, photographs, and essays from international authors, campaigners, politicians, philosophers, poets, artists, journalists, anthropologists, environmentalists and photojournalists. The royalties from the sale of this book go to the indigenous rights organization, [[Survival International]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/weareone \|title=We Are One \|publisher=Survival International \|access-date=9 February 2014}}</ref>

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| caption = Kumar in 2009
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1936|08|09}}
| birth_place = [[Dungargarh|Sri Dungargarh]], [[Rajputana Agency]], [[British Raj|British India]]<ref name=belief>[http://www.beliefnet.com/Wellness/2000/04/Path-Without-Destination.aspx Kumar, Satish. 2000. "Path without destination: The long walk of a gentle hero", Belief.net.] Accessed: 20 July 2012.</ref><br/> {{small|(present day [[Rajasthan]], [[India]])}}
| education =
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| employer =
| known_for = Founder, [[Schumacher College]] & [[The Small School]], Editor Emeritus of [[Resurgence & Ecologist]]
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| movement = Nuclear disarmament;<br />Environmental Sustainability
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| boards = <br />[[RSPCA]]<ref name=resurge>[http://www.resurgence.org/satish-kumar/ "About Satish", ''Resurgence''.] Accessed: 16 June 2012.</ref>
| religion = 
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| partner = June Mitchell
| children = Mukti Kumar Mitchell, Maya Kumar Mitchell
| parents =
| 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]]<ref name=resurge />
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'''Satish Kumar''' (born 9 August 1936)<ref name=belief /> is an [[Indian British]] activist and speaker. He has been a [[Jainism|Jain monk]], nuclear disarmament advocate and pacifist<ref name="ocala">{{cite news |title=Indian Pacifist Preaches Guerrilla War on Violence |first=Tom A. |last=Cullen |newspaper=[[Star-Banner]] |publisher=[[Halifax Media Group]] |location=[[Ocala, Florida]], United States |issn=0163-3201 |date=19 May 1969 |page=8 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19690516&id=2T0xAAAAIBAJ&pg=6823,2947808}}</ref>''.'' Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the [[Schumacher College]] international centre for ecological studies, and is Editor Emeritus of ''[[Resurgence & Ecologist]]'' magazine. His most notable accomplishment is the completion, together with a companion, E. P. Menon, of a [[peace walk]] of over 8,000 miles in 1973–4, from [[New Delhi]] to [[Moscow]], [[Paris]], [[London]], and [[Washington, D.C.]], the capitals of the world's earliest nuclear-armed countries.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/jan/16/activists | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Soul man | first=John | last=Vidal | date=16 January 2008 | access-date=23 May 2010}}</ref> He insists that reverence for nature should be at the heart of every political and social debate.

Defending criticism that his goals are unrealistic, he has said,

{{quote|Look at what [[Realism (international relations)|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.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/ethicalliving/2008/01/what_part_does_spirituality_pl.html | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=What part does spirituality play in the green movement? | first=Giulio | last=Sica | date=16 January 2008 | access-date=23 May 2010}}</ref>}}

== Early life ==
Kumar was born in [[Dungargarh|Sri Dungargarh]], [[Rajasthan]], India. At the age of 9, he left his family and became a Jain monk.<ref>{{Harvnb|Kumar|2000|pp=18–19}}</ref> At 18, after reading a book by [[Mahatma Gandhi]], he ran away from the [[mendicant]] order, to become a student of [[Vinoba Bhave]], an eminent disciple of Gandhi and his [[nonviolence]] and [[land reform]] ideas.<ref name=context>[http://www.context.org/iclib/ic17/kumar/ "Walking the World for Peace," Context Institute.] Accessed: 15 September 2012.</ref>

== Peace walk ==
Inspired by [[Bertrand Russell]]'s [[civil disobedience]] against the [[atomic bomb]], in 1962 Kumar and his friend E.P. Menon decided to dedicate themselves to undertaking a [[peace walk]] from India to the four capitals of the nuclear world: Moscow, Paris, London, and Washington D.C. and decided to carry no money on their trip. They called it a 'Pilgrimage for peace'.

[[Vinoba Bhave]] gave the young men two 'gifts'. One was to be [[penniless]] wherever they walked. The other was to be vegetarian. They first travelled through Pakistan, where they met great kindness from a country with a huge historic conflict and antipathy towards India. Leaving Pakistan via the [[Khyber Pass]], they continued through [[Afghanistan]], [[Iran]], [[Armenia]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], and the [[Caucasus Mountains]]. They visited Moscow, Paris, London, and Washington, D.C. Travelling on foot and carrying no money, Kumar and his companion would stay with anyone who offered them food or shelter. {{Anchor|Peace tea}}

[[File:Satish Kumar at the Convention on Modern Liberty.jpg|thumb|Satish Kumar at The Convention on Modern Liberty, London, 28/2/2009]]

While on their way to Moscow they met two women outside a tea factory. After explaining what they were doing one of the women gave them four packets of tea, one to be delivered to each of the leaders of the four nuclear powers and to also deliver a message, "when you think you need to press the button, stop for a minute and have a fresh cup of tea". This further inspired their journey and became in part the reason for it. They eventually delivered 'peace tea' to the leaders of four of the [[nuclear powers]].<ref name=BBCW>BBC World Service radio broadcast, ''[[Outlook (radio programme)|BBC Outlook]]'', 2015 October 25, 0830-0900 GMT, United Kingdom.</ref> The journey is chronicled in Kumar's book, ''[[Path without Destination]]''.

== Professional career ==

=== Editor ===
Between 1973 and 2016, Kumar was editor of ''[[Resurgence & Ecologist]]'' (combining the former ''Resurgence'' magazine, which had been described as the artistic and spiritual flagship of the green movement, with ''[[The Ecologist]]''). He contributed an essay to ''[[The Society for Curious Thought]]'' entitled "Focus on Food".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thesocietyforcuriousthought.com/contributors.php?WEBYEP_DI=15&OPENTREES=WYMUTREE_0_14 |title=Focus on Food}}</ref> He has also been a contributor to the [[BBC]]'s "[[Thought for the Day]]" strand on the ''[[Today programme|Today]]'' programme, and also appeared on [[Desert Island Discs]]. Kumar was interviewed by [[Richard Dawkins]] in his 'Slaves to Superstition' episode of the documentary ''[[The Enemies of Reason]]'', investigating the prevalence of unscientific beliefs in modern society. He also made a film, ''Earth Pilgrim'', for BBC2's Natural History Series.

=== ''We Are One'' ===
Kumar was one of the contributors for writing the book, ''We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples'', released in October 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/4981 |title='We Are One: a celebration of tribal peoples' published this autumn |publisher=Survival International |date=16 October 2009 |access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref> The book explores the culture of peoples around the world, portraying both its diversity and the threats it faces. It contains a collection of statements from tribal people, photographs, and essays from international authors, campaigners, politicians, philosophers, poets, artists, journalists, anthropologists, environmentalists and photojournalists. The royalties from the sale of this book go to the indigenous rights organisation, [[Survival International]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/weareone |title=We Are One |publisher=Survival International |access-date=9 February 2014}}</ref>

== Family life ==
Kumar, a recipient of the [[Jamnalal Bajaj International Award]],<ref name="Jamnalal Bajaj Award">{{cite web | url=http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/awards/archives/2001/international/dr-satish-kumar | title=Jamnalal Bajaj Award | publisher=Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation | date=2015 | access-date=13 October 2015}}</ref> settled in England in 1973. He lives a [[simple living|simple life]] in [[Hartland, Devon]], with his partner June Mitchell, their son Mukti Kumar Mitchell, and their daughter Maya Kumar Mitchell.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ascentmagazine.com/articles.aspx%3FarticleID=92&page=read&subpage=past&issueID=9.html |title= It Takes a Genius to be Simple|publisher=Ascent Magazine |access-date=23 May 2010 }}</ref>

== Politics ==

Prior to the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015 UK general election]], he was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the [[Green Party of England and Wales|Green Party]]'s [[Caroline Lucas]].<ref>{{cite news | url= https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/24/celebrities-sign-statement-support-caroline-lucas-not-green-party | title= Celebrities sign statement of support for Caroline Lucas – but not the Greens | work=The Guardian | location=London | first=Jessica | last=Elgot | date=24 April 2015 | access-date=22 July 2015}}</ref>

== Books ==
* ''No Destination: Autobiography of a Pilgrim'' (2014) [2004] [1978], Green Books, {{ISBN|978-0857842619}}
* ''You Are, Therefore I Am: A Declaration of Dependence'' (2002), Green Books, {{ISBN|978-1903998182}}
* ''Images of Earth and Spirit: A Resurgence anthology'' Edited by John Lane and Satish Kumar (2003), Green Books, {{ISBN|978-1903998298}}
* ''The Intimate and the Ultimate'' Vinoba Bhave, Edited by Satish Kumar (2004), Green Books, {{ISBN|978-1903998397}}
* ''The Buddha and the Terrorist: The Story of [[Angulimala]]'' (2006), Algonquin Books, {{ISBN|978-1565125209}}
* ''Spiritual Compass: The Three Qualities of Life'' (2008), Green Books/Finch Publishing, {{ISBN|978-1876451943}}
* ''Earth Pilgrim'' in conversation with Echann Deravy and Maya Kumar Mitchell (2009), Green Books, {{ISBN|978-1900322577}}
* ''Soul, Soil, Society: a New Trinity for our Time'' (2013), Leaping Hare Press, {{ISBN|978-1782400448}}
* ''Elegant Simplicity: the Art of Living Well'' (2019), New Society Publishers, {{ISBN|978-0865719101}}
* ''Pilgrimage for Peace: the Long Walk from India to Washington'' (2021), Green Books, {{ISBN|978-0857845290}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.resurgence.org/satish-kumar Biography on the Resurgence website]
* [http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC17/Kumar.htm Interview on the In Context website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110524115101/http://www.gleeds.tv/index.cfm?video=267 Satish Kumar's presentation as a part of the Royal Institute of British Architects International Dialogues: Architecture and Climate Change]
* [https://temenos.thelincolncentre.co.uk/20110913/ The E F Schumacher Centenary Lecture] at the Temenos Academy, 13 September 2011.

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