"Bridges of dialogue between nations considered enemies"

On June 20, 2026, the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of War, Flight, and Expulsion, Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, sent a moving message of peace to the participants of the Frankfurt Peace Rally and the human chain of peace across the Main River.

This extended version contains his message in the original English, followed section by section by the German translation. This preserves Rajmohan Gandhi's voice, tone, and personal warmth, while simultaneously making his thoughts immediately understandable to German-speaking listeners.

In his address, Rajmohan Gandhi covers a broad range of topics: from Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah to the question of how dialogue remains possible even between people and nations who are supposed to see each other as adversaries. His message reminds us that peace cannot grow from enemy images, moral condemnation, or military escalation.

This message resonated particularly strongly on the Untermain Bridge, where people of diverse backgrounds symbolically came together: Peace begins where we see the humanity in the other person once again.