Waiting For Mahatma Sriram is a high school graduate who lives with his grandmother in Malgudi‚ the fictional Southern Indian town in which much of Narayan’s fiction takes place. Sriram is attracted to Bharati‚ a girl of his age who is active in Mahatma Gandhi’s Quit India movement‚ and he becomes an activist himself. He then gets involved with anti-British extremists‚ causing much grief to his grandmother. Sriram’s underground activity takes place in the countryside‚ an area alien to him‚ and
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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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Mohandas Karmanchad Gandhi‚ who is also known as Mahatma Gandhi ‚was the pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism. Gandhi was born on 2nd October 1869 in Porbandar‚ a coastal town in Bombay. Gandhi was raised in a Hindu bania community in coastal Gujarat. During his life time he practised to be a good Hindu by obeying all the laws and helping others. As well his devotion‚ his goal was to help the poor and protest oppressive taxation and discrimination. Through his efforts he led India to independence
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Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand) "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever walked upon this earth in flesh and blood". -Albert Einstein Throughout history most national heroes have been warriors‚ but Gandhi was a passive and peaceful preacher of morals‚ ethics‚ and beliefs. He was an outsider who ended British rule over India without striking a blow. Moreover‚ Gandhi
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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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Mahatma Gandhi-a martyr Mahatma Gandhi was born on 2nd October 1869 at the place Porbander in Gujarat. He was first interested in legal administration. He completed his studies in South Africa. He participated in Boer war‚ Zulu rebellion and championed the Indian cause. He was one of the greatest and famous freedom fighters. His two assets were simplicity and humility. He is said to be the father of our country. He said some slogans they were: “do or die” “simple living and high thinking”
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Mahatma Gandhi Leadership Style The Father of the Nation is now being held up as the master strategist‚ an exemplary leader‚ and someone whose ideas and tactics corporate India can emulate. Gandhi reinvented the rules of the game to deal with a situation where all the available existing methods had failed. He broke tradition. He understood that you cannot fight the British with force. So he decided to change the game in a fundamentally different way. He unleashed the power of ordinary people
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to project the nation building attitude in their writings. His Waiting for the Mahatma‚ set in the surroundings of the writer’s created village Malgudi‚ is woven against the unconventional backdrop of the freedom movement. But in spite of using directly the national experience as the central theme as did Raja Rao‚ Narayan puts it in the background giving preference to the personal narrative. In Waiting for the Mahatma‚ the story develops through the development of Sriram’s character‚ his encounter
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Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi was a believer of sorting out conflicts through peaceful means. Ahimsa wishes no harm to any living being‚ whether human or not. It included not only a lack of physical harm to one’s opponents‚ but also a lack of hatred or towards them. Ahimsa originated from ancient India‚ evidenced by scriptures‚ and is practiced in the religions Hinduism‚ Buddhism and Jainism. Living in the period of time when India was being colonized and unjustly treated by the British‚
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: 1 : Children‚ there is not a single country in the whole world where the name of Mahatma Gandhi is not known. Do you know why Gandhiji became so famous? It was because he dedicated his whole life to the service of the motherland‚ and service of humanity. Today‚ I am going to tell you in brief‚ the story of Mahatma Gandhi‚ the father of the Nation‚ or Bapuji‚ as he is affectionately called. In the early days our country was made up of a large number of small Princely Kingdoms. Porbandar in
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