Gandhi In the movie‚ Gandhi by Richard Attenborough the strong beliefs and values that once belonged to Gandhi are dramatized and demonstrated. Gandhi was an inspirational leader as he was able to fight against injustices and restore independence. Gandhi`s ideas on how people should be treated are demonstrated throughout the film‚ as well as the influences that allowed him to develop these ideas. Also‚ the film displays the powerful actions Gandhi was responsible for to help him ensure equality
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Mahatma Gandhi was a leader with great aplomb and had great leadership skills. Gandhi was the preeminent leader during the British rule over India. Gandhi is remembered today for his virtues he believed and tried to preach. They were non-violence‚ truth‚ love‚ and fraternity. Gandhi became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslims and Hindu Indians in South Africa using new techniques of non violent civil disobedience that he developed during his return to India in 1915. Gandhi led Indians
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his nation as well as across the world; this leader was Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was a rebel‚ who successfully gained a large following and much support without formulating any violent war plans‚ or issuing violent attacks on the opposition. According to many of his writings‚ nonviolence and morality are the keys to achieving unity. Various peoples‚ such as Muslims and Jews‚ have encountered various situations throughout history where Gandhi felt as if using tactics other than war would be considerably
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Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi is the most remarkable and famous Indian political leader and is remembered in the world for his famous four virtues‚ which include non-violence‚ fraternity‚ love and truth. Through applying these virtues‚ he achieved his goals‚ such as freedom to India. This paper illustrates some of the main characteristics of Gandhi’s views on non-violence‚ as well as discusses why he has chosen non-violence to achieve his goals. Gandhi referred non-violence beyond what is entailed by
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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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occasionally. Communalism at its ugliest was witnessed during the Partition when people from all religions were vying for each other’s blood. More than sixty years later the scars are still there. The anti-Sikh riots after the assassination of Indira Gandhi and the Hindu-Muslim clash after the demolition of Babri Masjid too had left the entire country in a state of shock in the past. There is no denying that all the communal tension is started at the behest of politicians. Our so-called leaders
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1. Gandhi used to sleep with girls of aged between 18 to 25. Very few people know about this but its true (for detail you can read books by Dr L .R. BALI named“RANGEELA GANDHI” & “KYA GANDHI MAHATMA THE”) the girls who slept with Gandhi accepted this. Gandhi used to say that he is doing all this for his BRAHMCHARI Experiments. What from his experiments he was wanted to prove nobody knows? Gandhi himself accepted this that at the time of going to London for higher studies he decided to keep himself
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George C. Wallace‚ the United States Secretary of State when Mohandas K. Gandhi was assassinated‚ said that Gandhi "had become a spokesman for the conscience of all mankind- a man who made humility and simple truth more powerful than empires" (Gandhi‚ np). Gandhi is well known for his leadership in the liberation of India from Britain‚ but his main goal and message transcends beyond the acts he did‚ into everyday living. Gandhi promoted simple living‚ non-violence‚ and forgiveness as a way to unite
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1800s people of Indian nationality confronted discrimination in all parts of South Africa‚ and someone affected by this was Mahatma Gandhi‚ known as the “great soul”. Gandhi was an activist and philosopher who used nonviolent resistance‚ he was the controlling figure who struggled along with all the Indian population to gain independence from Great Britain. Gandhi introduced passive resistance‚ a concept also known as “satyagraha‚” which was a method to abstain from cooperating with authorities
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Indira Gandhi the 1st female prime minister of India was born on 19th November‚ 1917 into the politically influential Nehru family. Her father was Jawaharlal Nehru and her mother was Kamala Nehru. Her grandfather‚ Motilal Nehru‚ was a prominent Indian nationalist leader. Her father‚ Jawaharlal Nehru‚ was a pivotal figure in the Indian independence mover of Independent India. After finishing schooling Indira Gandhi went to Shantiniketan‚ a school set up by Rabindranath Tagore‚ and Huzurpaga‚ Pune
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