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From the Archives: ‘Cow is cheaper to keep than buffalo', writes Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi said,"If we would but concentrate attention on saving the cow the buffalo will take care of herself",

Updated on Oct 1, 2023 03:06 IST

‘Hindu-Muslim unity an integral part of Indian nationhood’, says Gandhiji at AMU

Mahatma Gandhi said he had known from his very boyhood that Hindu Mohamedan unity was an integral part of Indian nationhood.

Updated on Oct 1, 2023 03:03 IST

‘Emulate Sita and Savitri, be courageous’, Gandhi's advice to Hindu women

Gandhiji with Sarojini Naidu to break the Salt law.

Updated on Oct 1, 2023 02:35 IST

From the Archives: Mahatma Gandhi on ‘right’ way to deal with Hitler

Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler.

Updated on Sep 30, 2023 14:42 IST

Gandhiji on child marriages, dowry and untouchability

Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel at the AICC meeting in Mumbai.

Updated on Sep 30, 2023 10:27 IST

From the Archives: Mahatma Gandhi on how caste Hindus can help Harijans

Mahatma Gandhi collecting donations for the Harijan Fund (Assam), circa 1945. Beginning the late 1930s, Gandhi was also signing his photographs for auctioning, so that money raised could be used for the Harijan movement. “Do rupiya ek bar”, he [Gandhi] would say, the floor price is two rupees,” writes Ramachandra Guha in ‘Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World.’

Updated on Sep 30, 2023 10:28 IST

From the Archives: ‘No room for communalism in Congress’, says Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi with Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

Updated on Sep 30, 2023 10:40 IST

Interview: Gandhiji reveals why he chose Wardha

Mahatma Gandhi selected Wardha as the headquarters of his activities in connection with rural industries revival.

Updated on Sep 30, 2023 10:43 IST

‘Treat Harijans as your brothers’, Mahatma Gandhi's advice to students

Mahatma Gandhi seen collecting funds for Harijans in Assam, January 1946. Assam was unsure about her own political future; the air was also thick with communal polarisation. When the British Cabinet Mission plan created a political imbroglio, Gandhi sided with Assam and asked the people to remain steadfast. ()

Updated on Sep 30, 2023 10:44 IST

From the Archives: ‘Banish untouchability from hearts’, appeals Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi said in the City of Bombay they (Harijans) could not find quarters in respectable localities

Updated on Sep 30, 2023 10:44 IST

From the Archives: ‘Improper to question efficacy of non-violence’, says Gandhi

Scenes during Mahatma Gandhi’s famous Salt March. This march on foot to the sea coast at Dandi, on the eve of the Salt Satyagraha, 1930.

Updated on Sep 30, 2023 10:45 IST

From the Archives: Gandhiji deplores disappearance of Swadeshi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi at a Charkha demonstration in New Delhi in April 1946. For Gandhi, the charkha was a symbol of self-reliance

Updated on Sep 30, 2023 10:51 IST

From the Archives: ‘No Swaraj without unity’, says Gandhiji

He repeated that there can be no swaraj for India without the willing cooperation and unity between Hindus and Muslims and that such unity was bound to come sooner or later

Updated on Sep 30, 2023 03:22 IST

From the Archives: ‘Charkha is a symbol of non-violence’, says Gandhiji

A 1964 photograph of Gandhi taken by Margaret Bourke White shows him reading clippings with a charkha in the foreground.

Updated on Sep 29, 2023 18:36 IST

From the Archives: Mahatma Gandhi on value of ‘ahimsa’, hard discipline

Mahatma Gandhi in Bihar after the 1934 earthquake.

Updated on Sep 29, 2023 18:29 IST

From the Archives: ‘Dominion in action’, says Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi with Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru

Updated on Sep 29, 2023 18:20 IST

From the Archives: Gandhiji on the meaning of independence

"Corruption will go when the large number of persons given to the unworthy practice realize that the nation does not exist for them but that they do for the nation", Mahatma Gandhi said.

Updated on Sep 29, 2023 18:11 IST

From the Archives: ‘Treat minorities fairly’, Gandhi's advice to Hindus

Mahatma Gandhi in Noakhali, Assam, during the Partition riots of 1947.

Updated on Sep 29, 2023 17:56 IST

From the Archives: ‘Driving out Muslims will ruin Hinduism’, says Gandhiji

Gandhiji said the Government of India should protect the Muslims in the country

Updated on Sep 29, 2023 17:46 IST

From the Archives: Mahatma Gandhi pays tribute to Bose

Mahatma Gandhi said Hinduism regarded all religions as worthy of respect. Subhas Babu was, in his opinion, such a Hindu.

Updated on Sep 29, 2023 17:37 IST

From the Archives: ‘No place for English in free India’, declares Gandhiji

Gandhiji dealt with a letter in which the correspondent had said that he was painfully surprised to hear from Gandhiji's lips that it hurt him to continue to receive letters in English

Updated on Sep 29, 2023 17:17 IST

From the Archives: ‘Treat bomb-thrower with pity’, says Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi said no one should look down upon the misguided youth who had thrown the bomb,

Updated on Sep 30, 2023 03:58 IST

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