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Xuan instead of writing this. Swift What the kid write up just waiting my time. Siva Subramaniam Mr. Mohandas KaramChandra Gandhi died on the 30th of January I was born on the 30th of November - just 10 months. My family astrologer keeps saying that I'm the reincarnation of Gandhiji. Rajveer Ricebag? Bharat Mahaan Though his sarcasm is enjoyable. Akbar Khan Mohamadzai Mock all you want with such silly pieces. Siddhartha Suripunj Masterpiece! Over time, he came to identify closely with the problems of Indians around the world, became a critic of imperialism, and wrote prolifically on the problems faced by Indian indentured labourers.
He died in in Kolkata. After returning to India in January , Gandhi and Kasturba spent close to a year taking the train around India and Burma, third-class all the way, as he wanted to reacquaint himself with people. The two had differences of opinion—Birla being a pragmatic businessman and Gandhi an avowed dissenter—but were close and Birla played the role of an unofficial emissary between Gandhi and the British. Birla supported Gandhi for over three decades, and was the founding president of the Harijan Sevak Sangh.
Gandhi addressed a meeting in a mill in Bombay and lit a massive bonfire of foreign-made cloth. But what was to be a peaceful meeting ended in riots with 59 dead. In , Gandhi was arrested in India for the first time for sedition over three articles he wrote in Young India, and was released in At the Belgaum Congress session, he was elected party president and served for a year. Under him, civil disobedience intensified, he led the boycott of the Simon Commission, demanded restitution for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and an apology for the Khilafat movement.
He also founded Gujarat Vidyapith at Ahmedabad. After the Salt Satyagraha of , Gandhi and over , others were jailed, and released a year later. He also met the mill workers of Lancashire. In , he announced his decision to retire from politics and resigned from the Congress to focus on the development of village industries, Harijan service and vocational and skill-based education, and moved to Sevagram. Despite his announcement, he continued to meet British and Indian leaders, and go on fasts to draw attention to rights abuses.
He was in and out of prison throughout the s, and toured Orissa on foot, talking of the need to abolish untouchability. Tolstoy confirmed that passive resistance was crucial not just for Indians but for the world. Industrialist and textile merchant Ambalal Sarabhai supported Gandhi financially on his return from South Africa. Most Congress leaders were arrested, and jailed till the end of the war.
Strikes continued and thousands were jailed. Desai and his wife Durgabehn joined Gandhi in , and worked closely with him, translating his work and doing every task Gandhi asked him to.
In , Kasturba also had a heart attack and died in the palace. The iconic image of Gandhi is of him spinning, serene yet focused. The charkha, or spinning wheel, was at the intersection of his ideas of self-sufficiency, swadeshi, dignity of labour and freedom. Spinning and reviving traditional craft and methods would make villages self-sufficient, he believed. A prolific writer and journal keeper, Gandhi was the editor of the Gujarati paper Navajivan, the English paper Young India and the weekly Harijan, which he started in It was rare to see an edition without an article by him, a practice he started when he published Indian Opinion in South Africa.
He did most of his writing on trains and covered everything from the benefits of giving up milk to the need for better sanitation to economic development. Ambedkar differed, the latter believing villages were held back by caste hierarchies.
Gandhi felt each village had to function as a separate panchayat, independent of its neighbours, yet interdependent for larger needs. That he cleaned toilets to advocate dignity of labour is well known. Gandhi wrote extensively on the lack of sanitation, and the filth in third-class railway carriages. He had strong ideas about eliminating mosquito breeding sites—probably because he had malaria thrice, and linked equality with elimination of diseases like leprosy and tuberculosis that bred stigma.
Today, this advocacy of hygiene has been repurposed into a political tool. He sought an end to capitalism and inequality but was pragmatic enough to understand the power and necessity of funding an initiative as massive and audacious as freedom.
Birla, set up the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Ficci in in an effort to unite Indian businessmen against imperialists. Thakurdas was respected both in London and British Indian circles as well as within the Congress, giving him a unique position to negotiate. In the run-up to independence, Gandhi travelled to Bihar, Bengal and Punjab to maintain peace.
Communal tensions flared often, and after the brutal Calcutta Killings and Noakhali riots in , he spent months in Bengal.
Two days before independence, Gandhi reached Calcutta and met young people from the Hindu and Muslim communities. On 15 August , they took out rallies together and raised the flag. It came to be known as the Miracle of Calcutta. Where did the congratulations come from? Would it not be more appropriate to say condolences? He did not give permission to publish the letters, messages and telegrams he received. To avoid compulsory games at school, Gandhi took long walks.
He discovered the benefits in London where he walked to cut expenses. After independence, Gandhi spent much of his time praying, fasting and discussing duties of citizens. He founded the Bajaj group in the s. The call to boycott foreign goods resonated—he saw as exploitative the British practice of importing cheap material made from Indian cotton, and selling it to Indians at exorbitant prices.
On 13 January , Gandhi began what would be his last fast in public life; the aim was communal harmony. It may burst forth any day", he said, and began.
As he weakened over the next five days, political and religious leaders became anxious. Finally, on 18 January, after all communities assured him of holding the peace, Gandhi broke his fast with orange juice given by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. He was After the cremation at Raj Ghat in Delhi, a special train with five third-class carriages took the ashes to Allahabad for immersion. The train stopped at 11 stations en route, where hundreds of thousands met it to pay tribute.
An estimated 1. Nelson Mandela. You will give all these, but neither your soul, nor your mind. He wrote about his illiterate wife: "I simply cannot bear to look at Ba's face. The expression is often like that on the face of a meek cow and gives one the feeling as a cow occasionally does, that in her own dump manner she is saying something.
His son eventuallty attacked Gandhi in print, converted to Islam, and died an alcoholic. Grenier's article has more, and it gets wore. Since my own brightly optimistic enthusiasm inspired by the movie has been considerably dimmed, it's only fair that other Gandhi-lovers the movie Gandhi, that is should share the path. If you want fairy-tale heroes, try Star Wars or something. Mahatma Gandhi turns out to have been made of flesh and blood after all.
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