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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.
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Updated on Oct 02, 2024 12:27 am IST

Birla House: A visit to the Mahatma

Gandhi, a day before his assassination at Birla House, New Delhi.
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Updated on Oct 02, 2024 12:26 am IST

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

Tara Bhattacharjee at her residence in New Delhi.
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Updated on Oct 02, 2024 12:27 am IST

Hindustan Times and the Mahatma

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi inaugurated the Hindustan Times press in 1924.
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Updated on Oct 02, 2024 12:28 am IST

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

Mahatma Gandhi with Hindutva icon Syama Prasad Mookerjee, New Delhi, 1946.
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Updated on Oct 01, 2021 01:13 am IST

Essential reading on MK Gandhi

Gandhi after his release from prison, 1924.
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Updated on Oct 02, 2024 12:29 am IST

A biographer’s journey: In search of the Mahatma

Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru spinning, Delhi.
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Updated on Oct 02, 2024 12:30 am IST

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.
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Updated on Oct 02, 2024 12:31 am IST

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.
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Updated on Oct 02, 2024 12:33 am IST

A hyperlocal economic plan

Gandhi argued for an India of household production for local consumption.
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Updated on Oct 02, 2024 12:34 am IST

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.
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Updated on Oct 02, 2024 12:34 am IST

An archival treasure on Gandhi

Pratima behn, a communicator at the Sabarmati ashram, explains aspects of Gandhi’s life.
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Updated on Sept 30, 2021 08:46 pm IST

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.
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Updated on Sept 30, 2021 06:45 pm IST

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.
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Updated on Oct 02, 2024 12:36 am IST

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.
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Updated on Oct 02, 2024 12:37 am IST

The five Gandhis

Indian software developer and Cricketer Kaushik Gandhi poses for a picture at his residence in Chennai
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Updated on Oct 01, 2021 12:54 am IST

The Gandhian who brought the charkha to Nepal

Tulsi Mehar Shrestha with Jawaharlal Nehru, Nepal.
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Updated on Oct 01, 2021 01:04 am IST

Can Gandhi and Mao ever meet?

Gandhi, 1940s; Revolutionary Chinese leader Mao Tse-Tung, 1949
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Updated on Oct 01, 2021 01:04 am IST

Gandhi on trial in South Africa, again

The Gandhi statue in Johannesburg that political party Economic Freedom Fighters sought to remove.
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Updated on Oct 01, 2021 12:57 am IST

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
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Updated on Oct 02, 2024 12:45 am IST

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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Updated on Sept 30, 2021 06:59 pm IST

The Mahatma’s Bengal connection

Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan in February 1940.
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Updated on Oct 02, 2024 12:46 am IST

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.
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Updated on Sept 30, 2021 08:58 pm IST

A lesson in swaraj from informal women workers

Mahatma Gandhi with Sabarmati ashramites.
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Updated on Sept 30, 2021 07:15 pm IST

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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Updated on Sept 30, 2021 08:33 pm IST

A young woman who played an aging Kasturba

Veteran actor Rohini Hattangadi at her residence in Mumbai.
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Updated on Sept 30, 2021 07:18 pm IST

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.
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Updated on Oct 02, 2024 12:47 am IST

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.
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Updated on Sept 30, 2021 08:50 pm IST

Gandhi’s Bombay days in Mumbai

Mahatma Gandhi at Juhu Beach, Bombay, May 1944 (Alamy Stock Photo)
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Updated on Oct 01, 2021 12:59 am IST

A winning combination

Woman demonstrators during Quit India movement 1942
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Published on Oct 01, 2021 12:58 am IST
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