Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2‚ 1869 in Porbander on the west coast of India. He came from a middle class family where his father‚ Karamchand‚ was prime minister of a small Indian state (Porbandar). At the age of 13‚ he married Kasturbai Makanji who was also 13. The fact that he finished middle school‚ high school and went to law school as a married man deserves some kind of recognition. In 1888‚ Gandhi sailed to London‚ England to continue his legal education. Gandhi became a lawyer
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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Indirā Priyadarśinī Gāndhī; Hindi: इंदिरा प्रियदर्शिनी गांधी ; born 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and the leader of the Indian National Congress. She was the third Prime Minister of the Republic of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984‚ a total of fifteen years. Gandhi was the first female prime minister to hold the office and remained as the world’s longest serving
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Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Liberator‚ A Biography - Richard L. Deats and Mary Jegen The book is a well structured chronological assessment of Mohandas Gandhi’s life from his childhood as an aspiring lawyer up to his untimely death that symbolizes nonviolent movements and peaceful deeds. The book summarizes Mahatma’s life as follows. Gandhi founded several movements and groups in which he came up with a nonviolent resistance in one major movement‚ which he initiated to fight against a requirement
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ASSIGNMENT Making of a Social Entrepreneur Arbind Singh: A Social Entrepreneur Founder & Director‚ Nidan‚ Patna By: Jai Kumar Verma PGDIM – 19 Sec - A Roll No: 65 Social entrepreneurs are the individuals with business insight and who want to for a social cause. They can provide the new approaches needed to fasten the process of reducing poverty and hunger. By combining and developing the innovative ideas from individuals and investments from public‚ private‚ and civil society
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in Hinduism recent history is mahatma gandhi a key name. We have mentioned that the Hindus would rather not harm or kill any other living beings. This ideal is called ahimsa‚ and it is most famous for having lived for it in modern times gandhi. He was born in India in 1896 and the name was Mohandas Gandhi. But eventually he got the nickname Mahatma‚ which means great soul. Gandhi fought for India’s independence while the country was under British colonial rule. methods were not violent‚ and neither
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best describe Gandhi would be passionate and wise‚ because he is very knowledgeable and this quote may have many other interpretations. Gandhi may have related this quote into his life when he was fighting over the injustices of the British and this may have been the time during which he said this inspiring quote. There were many events happing that maybe this quote was meant to be about the British because in some ways they tried to control or dictate people as Hitler did too. Gandhi might have been
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MAHATMA GANDHI Born on the 2nd of October 1869‚ Mahatma Gandhi has made many contributions to India‚ being unarguably the most important character throughout their history. His biggest contributions included gaining India freedom from the British reign and inspiring civil rights‚ going as far as sacrificing his own life for his country. Gandhi‚ leading a simple life gained appreciable respect‚ playing a pivotal role in India’s freedom struggle. Mahatma Gandhi did not believe in violence and his
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Descriptive Essay abot Mahatma Gandhi’s Principle Truth(satya) Gandhi dedicated his life to the wider purpose of discovering truth‚ or Satya. He tried to achieve this by learning from his own mistakes and conducting experiments on himself. He called his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Gandhi stated that the most important battle to fight was overcoming his own demons‚ fears‚ and insecurities. Gandhi summarised his beliefs first when he said "God is Truth". He would later change
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Mahatma Gandhi‚ was an amazing speaker and cleared about the conflict between war and peace not only with our surrounding but also within ourselves. Mahatma believes that Gandhi’s theory is no longer being used in our modern times‚ that being positive attitude‚ love‚ and respect. On the other hand our modern times is just a display of negativity. He also believes that we should be a better person than yesterday; which we are far from trying to be today‚ as well as being civilized. Gandhi had three
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2nd October‚ every year is celebrated as Gandhi Jayanti‚ the birthday of Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi‚ the most famous freedom fighter of our mother India. Mahatma Gandhi is also lovingly known as Bapu by all. Gandhi was one of the most humble and modest person‚ mother India could ever give birth to‚ however‚ in his biography‚ he admits that he did not find himself worthy of the title and was often pained and upset by it. Gandhi was the epitome of peace‚ non-violence‚ truth and duty. He practiced
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