Mahatma Gandhi was one of the greatest leaders of the world, who fought for independence peacefully and attained freedom for his country.
He not only gained freedom for his own country, but also prompted other world leaders to fight for freedom peacefully.
His full name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Mohandas was born on 2nd October, 1869 in Porbandar Mohandas was a naughty child. He liked to play pranks. One day, he stole away the money of his father from his purse, but later on repented for his mistake, when his father scolded him for doing wrong. Mahatma Gandhi felt guilty for his mistake and promised that he would never repeat it again in his life.
Mohandas was as human like all of us. He also did mistakes. But virtue that made him superior to all of us was, that he rectified his mistakes and never repeated them again in his life.
Mohandas passed his Matriculation exam from Rajkot and thereafter joined Samaldas College in Bhavnagar. He went to study Law in England and returned back as a Barrister after 3 years.
He began to practice law in Bombay but could not attain success in it because he fought for truth and very rare cases were picked up by him, as he only selected the true cases and rejected the false ones. Therefore, very few cases were fought by him. In the year 1913, he went to South Africa to plead the case of a company called Dada Abdullah and Co.
In S. Africa he was travelling by a train, when a white threw him out of the train for belonging to black race. At that time apartheid was on its peak in S. Africa. Mohandas was deeply hurt with this incident. He was shocked at the cruel behaviour of the whites, who discriminated between caste, colour and creed and heed no mercy at the plight of innocent people.
Mahatma Gandhi took a pledge to revolt against the wrongs done by the Whites. In South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi fought for the rights of Indians, and began a ‘Satyagraha’ movement to improve their condition.
The Racialist regime of S. Africa had to bow its head before him and thus ‘The Indian Relief Act’ was passed in favour of the Indians settled there. In the year 1915 Gandhi came back to India and joined the Indian National Congress.
In 1924, he got elected as the President of Indian National Congress.
He began the Non-Co-operation Movement in 1930 to protest against the atrocities done by the British through peaceful ways. In 1930 he began the Civil Disobedience Movement. The Quit India Movement was started by him in the year 1942.
He was tortured beyond limits by the British. He tolerated all their atrocities with a hope for a better tomorrow. He was hopeful that one day the Britishers would have to run away from his nation and thus the nation shall get freedom from their entangles.
Finally, Mahatma Gandhi’s all dreams took a practical shape. India got freedom on 15th August 1947.
But a section of people was not happy with his policies. A person called Nathuram Godse could not digest Mahatma Gandhi’s popularity. He shot him dead on January 30, 1948, in a prayer assembly at Birla house, Delhi.
Numerous people come and go from this earth, but a person like Mahatma Gandhi leaves a mark that can never be erased.
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