The Untold Story of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. It is difficult to find people in this subcontinent who have not heard the name of Mahatma Gandhi. Some people like to call him Bapu. The little black dry man wearing dhoti and chador is the father of the Indian nation. Gandhi was the proponent of non-violent doctrine and satyagraha movement. Mahatma is his title. Whose great soul. The title was given by Rabindranath Tagore, the great poet of Bengali literature.
The Untold Story of Mahatma Gandhi - Biography of Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi got married as a teenager. It would be a little wrong
to say that it was done, it was done. She got married to Kastbai at the age of
7. In 183, 13-year-old Gandhi was married to 14-year-old Kastbai. Gandhi kept
that bond intact all his life. Not only that, Kastbai was also one of the
inspirers of all Gandhi's movements. However, at the age of 36, Gandhi
abandoned intercourse with women. In their married life, Kastbai and Gandhi
gave birth to 4 sons.
Gandhi, the vegetarian who wears the dhoti chador, we know,
was a full-fledged gentleman while studying in London. He used to learn dance
and violin regularly. Sahebi used to wear a coat and tie a walking stick.
Gandhi did many experiments throughout his life. In English it
is called Experiment. One of them is smoking and eating beef. Gandhi was born
to mother Putlibai and father Dewan. Putlibai was a strict religious woman. He
fasted every day and was a vegetarian. Gandhi grew up in religious discipline.
As a result, Gandhi never had any bad habits, but from an early age his mother
used to tell him about kindness, non-violence and friendly relations between
different communities.
When he went abroad, his mother made him swear that he would
abstain from alcohol, meat and women. Experimentalist Gandhi once smoked with
his elder brother but did not like it. A Muslim friend, Sheikh Mehtab,
explained to him that the English could rule so many countries because they ate
meat. And Indians are still their subjects because they are vegetarians. Gandhi
was impressed by the words of that friend and ate beef.
Mahatma Gandhi was a very introverted personality as an
inspirational figure of all the leaders of the world. When he finished school,
he would somehow run home. Because he could not mix with his classmates at all.
Gandhi would not speak in shame, and how to make a friend. Even after passing
the barrister from London, Gandhi was a thief. There was no expansion of
business. Will it spread or how? His legs trembled when he stood in the court
to speak.
If the opposing lawyer said something, he would not be able to
give any answer. Who would want such a lawyer? Gandhi necessarily migrated to
South Africa.
In the early days of the Zulu War in South Africa, he joined
the British Army as a volunteer at a medical center for soldiers. Luckily,
Gandhi got a job as a debt collector in an Indian company. South Africa was
then under British and Dutch rule. Indians were a minority and suffered from
caste discrimination. Gandhi built resistance against discrimination and the
idea of satyagraha started from
there. The incident that ignited the fire of Gandhi's inner leadership -
Despite having a first class ticket, he was not allowed to sit
in the first class room as he was black and Indian, but was pushed out of the
train due to a dispute over the issue. This incident left a mark on Gandhi's
mind.
All foreign goods, especially British goods, were boycotted
during the Swadeshi movement. Along the way, he urged all Indians to wear khadi
instead of British clothing. He called on all Indian men and women, rich and
poor, to support the independence movement by turning the wheel of the daily
Khadir. It was a strategy that eliminated reluctance and ambition through the
practice of discipline and self-sacrifice, as well as involving women in the
movement, all of which were considered disrespectful by women at the time.
Due to the imposition of additional taxes on salt, Gandhi set
out on foot for Dundee with thousands of Indians. History calls it the Salt
March. Reach Dundee from Allahabad from 12th March to 8th April on foot just to
make salt with your own hands. Dundee is about 241 miles from Allahabad. At
that time, the British arrested 70,000 Indians to avenge the humiliation.
60,000 Indians!
Mahatma Gandhi has a special reputation for walking. Gandhi
has walked so much in his life that it is possible to travel around the world
twice. In other words, he used to walk about 16 kilometers a day.
Gandhi was arrested a total of 13 times in his lifetime in
South Africa and India. He was sentenced to seven years in prison in 1922 for
writing an anti-British inflammatory article in Young India, but was released
in 1924 after falling ill.
Gandhi never went to America. He thought, since he is the
father of the nation (Indians call Gandhi Bapu), most of the people in the
nation are poor, how can he travel by air as the father of that poor? Many fans
of Gandhi were made in the country and abroad. President Henry Ford was one of
them to whom Gandhi presented a charka with his own signature.
Gandhi regularly wrote letters to Tolstoy. There was a lot of
correspondence with Hitler. Although Gandhi wrote a letter to Hitler requesting
an end to the war, it never reached Hitler again. Because the British
government intervened.
We reward good deeds. But there are some deeds, there are some
people who are above all rewards, but rewards shorten their great deeds. Gandhi
is a man above the prize. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize 5 times by the
Nobel Committee.
Although he was nominated in 1938, 1936, 1939 and 1948, Gandhi
was supposed to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948. But Gandhi could not be
reduced to a reward as he was shot dead by assassins on October 2.
Great Britain, the country against which Gandhi fought all his
life, printed a picture of Gandhi on a stamp in his honor 21 years after his
death. In honor of Gandhi, 53 major roads in India and 48 roads
around the world were named after Gandhi. Not only that, Time Magazine's Man of
the Year 1930 was Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi's funeral was attended by one million people which was
about 8 km long.
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