It was over five decades back in 1972 that hundreds of dacoits, or baagis as they are called locally, voluntarily surrendered in Chambal valley of central India as part of a wider and inspirational social initiative for significant, beneficial, and durable social change achieved by non-violence.
In the early morning of 6 April 1930, on the quiet shores of the Arabian Sea at Dandi in Gujarat, Mahatma Gandhi bent down, picked up a handful of salt, and quietly defied the law of the British Empire.
On March 12, 1930, Mahatma Gandhi stepped out of Sabarmati Ashram with a small group of followers and a simple but radical plan: to challenge British authority over something as basic as salt.
He emphasized that both Mahatma Gandhi and Sree Narayana Guru lacked physical or financial strength but possessed immense, lasting power due to their spiritual strength and commitment to truth.
On 17 February, the world lost one of its most resonant voices for equality - Reverend Je sse L . Jackson, Sr., who passed away at the age of 84.
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PM Modi will lead the Independence Day celebrations from Red Fort today. He will hoist the national flag and deliver the customary address to the nation from the ramparts of Red Fort in New Delhi.
Mahatma Gandhi taught the world that a revolution, resistance, and reclamation of freedom don't always need to be violent, they can be achieved through truth, love, non-violence, and iron-willed determination.
Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead by Nathuram Godse on January 30th, 1948 and his death anniversary is observed as Marty's Day.
Truth has to be discovered and established through truth itself. Hence Gandhi always laid stress on truthful means. The means, to him, had to be as true and pure as the end. However worthy and noble a cause might be, it had to be accomplished by worthy and noble means alone, and never by unfair means. He closely associated truth with non-violence. Satyagraha, the passion for truth, was the name given to the means
