Essay on Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi (1869 1948)
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Essay on Mahatma Gandhi

• The anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi
  (Gandhi Jayanti) is celebrated on October 2 as a
  national event throughout India. This day is
  observed throughout the world as the
  International Day of Nonviolence. Mahatma Gandhi
  has contributed untiringly and selflessly to the
  struggle for independence for independence.
• The ideals of Mahatma Gandhi were Satya (truth)
  and ahimsa (nonviolence). For his philosophy of
  truth and nonviolence, he paved the way for
  India's independence from the British. Mahatma
  Gandhi was named as the father of the nation. It
  was the harbinger of hope not only for India but
  for the world.

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• Mahatma Gandhi not only made a significant
  contribution to India's fight against the British
  for freedom, but through his iconoclastic vision,
  he urged people all over the world to confront
  any form of Discrimination, whether by caste ,
  color, little.
• The profound quote of Mahatma Gandhi, "The best
  way to meet is to lose yourself in the service of
  others", sums up correctly his important selfless
  contribution to India. Mohandas Karamchand
  Gandhi, an iconoclastic and disinterested man,
  was born on October 2, 1869 in Karamchand
  Uttamchand Gandhi and Putlibai, in a family of
  Hindu merchant castes in Porbandar, Gujarat state.

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• He practiced law for a year at the University of
  Bombay, then was transferred to University
  College London, where he graduated in 1891.
  Mahatma Gandhi was admitted to the law school of
  England. He practiced law in Bombay (now Mumbai)
  for a year before traveling to South Africa,
  where he was a victim of racism.
• Mahatma Gandhi used nonviolent civil disobedience
  for the first time in South Africa as part of the
  struggle of the Indian civil rights community.
  His nonviolence and his satyagraha were the tools
  with which he could lead India to independence
  without spilling a drop of blood.

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• Mahatma Gandhi inspired people with his famous
  phrase "Be the change you want to see in the
  world.
• He practiced nonviolence, truth and self-control.
  While in London, he became more committed to a
  vegetarian diet and encouraged others to adopt a
  vegetarian diet as well. The father of the nation
  believed in simple life and high thinking. He
  lived simply, wore a traditional Indian dhoti and
  a shawl woven from wool spun by hand in a
  charkha. He abstained from eating meat, alcohol
  and promiscuity. Mahatma Gandhi made long fasts
  to mark his opposition to political protest.

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• In 1916, Mahatma Gandhi was arrested for
  organizing the civil resistance of tens of
  thousands of landless peasants and serfs in the
  district of Champaran, Bihar, India. Through the
  Champaran Satyagraha of 1916, Mahatma Gandhi and
  the farmers and serfs opposed the increasing
  British tax on farmers during the devastating
  famine.
• With his determination, Gandhi surprised the
  British in 1930 with his 440 km walking towards
  the sea to oppose the British monopoly of salt
  and led the Indians to question the salt tax
  imposed by the British. The Dandi Salt Walk is a
  record of history and about 60,000 people were
  imprisoned after Dandi's departure.

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• Gandhi believed that all human beings are special
  persons of God and that they should be treated
  equally, regardless of their caste, color,
  language, creed, region, religion and ethnic
  origin. Mahatma Gandhi believed in religious
  pluralism and campaigned for the empowerment of
  the untouchables, whom he called the Harijans
  (children of God). In 1942, Gandhi urged the
  Indians to stop cooperating with the British and
  called for the Quit India movement.

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• However, India's struggle for independence lasted
  a long time and many people sacrificed their
  lives during this process. India finally gained
  freedom in August 1947. But independence was
  followed by the terrible partition.
• After the partition and the witnesses of
  religious violence related to the creation of
  India and Pakistan after the independence of
  India in 1947, Gandhi carried out innumerable
  fasts until death to put an end to religious
  violence. . The father of the nation was killed
  on January 30, 1948, after Nathuram Godse fired
  three bullets at Birla House in New Delhi.

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• The father of the nation was a well-read man and
  a passionate writer. His philosophy of ahimsa,
  satyagraha and civil disobedience remains a
  powerful philosophy in people's lives and has
  helped people around the world to gather the
  courage to oppose discrimination.
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