Source 1 On-This-Day – Obituary. Assassination in India: A Leader of Will and Force; Indira Gandhi‚ Born to Politics‚ Left Her Own Imprint on India. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1119.html. Accessed 21/1/15. Origin: The article appeared in the New York Times‚ after Mrs Gandhi’s death. The article is an obituary written by the freelance journalist; Linda Charlton (deceased). Charlton was a former journalist with the New York Times for 10 years before going freelance.
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of courageous and strong leaders are Mahatma Gandhi and Maximilien Robespierre. While Gandhi and Robespierre have their differences‚ they both risked their lives while battling against the inequality among their people. Gandhi fought for the equality in India and Robespierre fought for the equality in France. Both of these brave men strived towards a country that did not treat people differently based on their race‚ social class or wealth. While Gandhi had a more peaceful and nonviolent way of defying
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our laws. From Mahatma Gandhi to Martin Luther King Jr.‚ we have seen the practice of nonviolent symbolic protests have a better outcome than wars. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2‚ 1869 in Porbandar‚ India. He is well known as the prominent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Gandhi got his start working in politics as a lawyer in South Africa. There‚ he supported the local Indian community’s struggle for civil rights. Gandhi carried his knowledge
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negative Indira Gandhi was the most corrupt politicians of all time . Her politics was so ugly that to remain in power and stay as uncrowned queen of India she imposed emergency in 1977 . She made extreme laws such as forcible vasectomy of men ( unmarried young men included ) to control population of India . She was an awful leader and one of the biggest criminal of all times . She ate away India financially and also caused a lot of mayhem . When Sikhs opposed her regime ( in worlds largest democracy
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Historian Steven Ambrose was a consultant on the film and views this kind of fiction as “the kind that illuminates truth rather than diminishing it.” Saving Private Ryan made history by telling the story of Omaha Beach on D-Day with great historical accuracy. Spielberg was very committed to recreating that time and place so that the audience would know the truth about the suffering‚ death and courage of our American soldiers and the Allied troops. The film provided a close-up view of what it was
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My name is Indira Nehru Gandi and I was born on November 19‚ 1917 in Allahabad‚India. I studied in Visva-Bharati University‚ Somerville College‚and in the University of Oxford. I had a great passion for education because Education is a liberating force‚ and in our age it is also a democratizing force‚ cutting across the barriers of caste and class‚ smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances. My father‚ Jawaharlal Nehru‚ led India’s political struggle for independence from
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achieving a goal. Mahatma Gandhi was the man who founded this form of protest. People‚ especially westerners‚ are astonished that this method of protest would work. They do not understand allowing people to harm you without retaliating would gain independence for India. To answer the question: How did Gandhi methods work? I would say that Gandhi’s nonviolent movement worked because of his clear communication‚ nonviolent tactics‚ and his commitment to India gaining independence. Gandhi wrote a letter to
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Biographical Sketch: Kasturba Gandhi Kasturba Gandhi was a renowned figure for all of India and was always there to help Mohandas Gandhi out. Kasturba was born on April 11‚ 1869 to Gokuladas Makharji‚ a wealthy business man. She married Mohandas Gandhi in 1882 when she was only 13 years old. At that time she could not read or write because she hadn’t had the proper schooling. Mohandas taught to both read and write and that would come in handy later when she was delivering speeches that led
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At one lime Jawaharlal Nehru remarked that he doubled the clarity of the Mahatma and also his own association with him. Explaining this paradox Nehru writes thus: "Personality is as’ indefinable tiling‚ a strange force that has power over the soul man and he possesses this in a remarkable measure..... He attracted people..... They did not agree with his philosophy of life or even with’ many of his ideals... and we went with him although we did not accept his philosophy." What gave this enormous spell
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Indira Gandhi was our first woman Prime Minister. She had rare qualities of leadership and guided the destiny of a big country like India for about 15 years‚ from 1966 to 1977 and 1980 to 1984. India gained status of respect and strength in the world forum during her time. Our defeating the Pakistani forces in the Indo-Pak war‚ resulting in the creation of Bangladesh‚ won her name and admiration even from the opposition parties. She was regarded a highly skilled‚ far- sighted‚ aggressive leader
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