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The man who chronicled Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi with Mahadev Desai (right) at the All India Congress Committee meeting in Bombay, August 8, 1942, the day that the Quit India resolution was moved.

Updated 1016 days ago

Birla House: A visit to the Mahatma

Gandhi, a day before his assassination at Birla House, New Delhi.

Updated 2111 days ago

‘I kept feeling that Bapu would wake up any minute’: Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee

Tara Bhattacharjee at her residence in New Delhi.

Updated 1016 days ago

Hindustan Times and the Mahatma

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi inaugurated the Hindustan Times press in 1924.

Updated 1016 days ago

Gandhiji’s name etched in the history of independent India, writes Mohan Bhagwat

Mahatma Gandhi with Hindutva icon Syama Prasad Mookerjee, New Delhi, 1946.

Updated 2111 days ago

Essential reading on MK Gandhi

Gandhi after his release from prison, 1924.

Updated 1016 days ago

A biographer’s journey: In search of the Mahatma

Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru spinning, Delhi.

Updated 1016 days ago

Gandhi and Gujarat: At home and in self-imposed exile

At 6.30 am, on March 12, 1930 MK Gandhi, accompanied by co-marchers, left the Sabarmati ashram for Dandi, a coastal village in Gujarat.

Updated 1016 days ago

Gandhi, Ambedkar and the 1932 Poona Pact

The impact of MK Gandhi’s principled resistance to BR Ambedkar’s political demand for separate electorates for the so-called depressed classes lives on.

Updated 1016 days ago

A hyperlocal economic plan

Gandhi argued for an India of household production for local consumption.

Updated 1016 days ago

An experiment in Khadi, and Gandhi’s eastern base

A charkha used by Mahatma Gandhi on display at the Gandhi Bhavan (Hyderi Manzil) in Kolkata, where he spent 25 days, including Independence Day, in 1947.

Updated 1016 days ago

An archival treasure on Gandhi

Pratima behn, a communicator at the Sabarmati ashram, explains aspects of Gandhi’s life.

Updated 2478 days ago

Champaran satyagraha turned into social reform

A view of Gandhi's ashram set up in 1917 at the time of the Champaran movement in Bhitiharwa.

Updated 2478 days ago

1915-16: A tour of the homeland

Gandhi started his travels from Bombay and journeyed across the length and breadth of the country, from Kolkata to Ahmedabad, Delhi to Chennai.

Updated 1016 days ago

Growing up in Mahatma Gandhi’s Sevagram Ashram

The school started by MK Gandhi and operated by Anand Niketan at Sevagram Ashram Pratisthan in Wardha, Maharashtra.

Updated 1016 days ago

The five Gandhis

Indian software developer and Cricketer Kaushik Gandhi poses for a picture at his residence in Chennai

Updated 2478 days ago

The Gandhian who brought the charkha to Nepal

Tulsi Mehar Shrestha with Jawaharlal Nehru, Nepal.

Updated 2443 days ago

Can Gandhi and Mao ever meet?

Gandhi, 1940s; Revolutionary Chinese leader Mao Tse-Tung, 1949

Updated 2111 days ago

Gandhi on trial in South Africa, again

The Gandhi statue in Johannesburg that political party Economic Freedom Fighters sought to remove.

Updated 2111 days ago

Learning to become a political activist

Gandhi recovering after being beaten up by a fellow Indian who felt that Gandhi had made a wrong compromise with South African officials, 1908

Updated 1016 days ago

Gandhi Jayanti: The importance of constructive work

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

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The Mahatma’s Bengal connection

Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan in February 1940.

Updated 1016 days ago

Gandhi’s four visits to Assam

Even before Gandhi arrived in Assam, his call for Non Cooperation had created havoc for the European tea planters.

Updated 2481 days ago

A lesson in swaraj from informal women workers

Mahatma Gandhi with Sabarmati ashramites.

Updated 2111 days ago

Many Gandhis on our screens

film director, Richard Attenborough, (left) and actor, Ben Kingsley, who played the Mahatma, on set, 1982.

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A young woman who played an aging Kasturba

Veteran actor Rohini Hattangadi at her residence in Mumbai.

Updated 2111 days ago

Champaran: India’s first Satyagraha

An outside view of Bapudham Motihari Railway station, a historical place for the start of Satyagraha movement by Mahatma Gandhi, at Motihari, Bihar.

Updated 1016 days ago

A novel form of political protest

Days after breaking the Salt law on April 6, 1930, Gandhi toured the villages around Dandi and addressed gatherings, speaking about the importance of satyagraha, and the need for civil disobedience.

Updated 2482 days ago

Gandhi’s Bombay days in Mumbai

Mahatma Gandhi at Juhu Beach, Bombay, May 1944 (Alamy Stock Photo)

Updated 2487 days ago

A winning combination

Woman demonstrators during Quit India movement 1942

Published 2487 days ago

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