Facts about Gandhi

Note:

               Gandhi has suggested the winding up of Indian National Congress after India attained independence and converting it into Lok Sevak Samaj. 

Facts about Gandhi

Date and Place of Birth: Oct. 2, 1869 and Porbandar, Gujarat.

Note:

                 UNO declared Oct.2 as ‘International Non- violence Day’ (Antarrashtriy Ahinsa Diwas)

Father: Karamachand Gandhi, Mother: Putali Bai, Political Guru: Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Private Secretary: Mahadev Desai.

Literary Influences on Gandhi: 

                 John Ruskin’s Unto This Last, Emerson, Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, The Bible and the Gita.

Literary Works:

                Hind Swaraj (1909), My Experiments with Truth (Autobiography, 1927) - reveals events of Gandhi’s Life upto 1922.

As an Editor: Indian Opinion: 

                1903-15 (in English and Gujarati, for a short period in Hindi and Tamil), Harijian: 1919-31 (in English, Gujarat and Hindi), Young India: 1933-42 (in English and Gujarati – Named Navjeevan)

Other Names:

                Mahatma (Saint)- by Rabindranath Tagore , 1917; Malang Baba/ Nanga Faqir (Naked Saint ) –by Kabailis of North –West Frontier ,1930; Indian Faqir/ Traitor Faqir- by Winston Churchill, 1931; Half –naked Saint (Arbha nanga Faqir)- by Franq Mores, 1931; Rashtrapita (the Father of the  Nation)- by Subhash Chansdra Bose , 1944.