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Even though he was assassinated in 1948, people still see him as an emblem of peace today. Mahatma Gandhi rose to fame through peaceful protests regarding India’s freedom from British colonizers.
–Mahatma Gandhi “An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer.” –Mahatma Gandhi “The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.” –Mahatma Gandhi
' Experiments of Truth or Autobiography ') is the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, covering his life from early childhood through to 1921. It was written in weekly installments and published in his journal Navjivan from 1925 to 1929. Its English translation also appeared in installments in his other journal Young India. [1]
In Europe, Romain Rolland was the first to discuss Gandhi in his 1924 book Mahatma Gandhi, and Brazilian anarchist and feminist Maria Lacerda de Moura wrote about Gandhi in her work on pacifism. In 1931, physicist Albert Einstein exchanged letters with Gandhi and called him "a role model for the generations to come" in a letter writing about ...
Sayyid Mawlānā Azad 1st Minister of Education In office 15 August 1947 – 2 February 1958 Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Preceded by Office Established Succeeded by K.L. Shrimali Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha In office 21 February 1952 – 22 February 1958 Constituency Rampur, Uttar Pradesh In office 14 March 1957 – 22 February 1958 Constituency Gurgaon, Punjab (present-day Haryana ...
In 1915 Gandhi delivered an address to the students at Madras in which he discussed these vows. It was later published as "The Need of India". [9] He would deliver a speech on the Ashram vows every Tuesday after prayers.
In 1985 K. Swaminathan retired to his home town, Madras. Although he was no longer Chief Editor of the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, he assisted his former colleagues in New Delhi in bring out seven supplementary volumes and in preparing consolidated subject and person indexes to the series. In his last years he was active in a citizens ...
In 1916, after reading a newspaper piece by Mahatma Gandhi, Bhave threw his school and college certificates into a fire on his way to Bombay to appear for the intermediate examination. He wrote a letter to Gandhi and after an exchange of letters, Gandhi advised Bhave to come for a personal meeting at Kochrab Ashram in Ahmedabad. Bhave met ...