The birthday of Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi Jayanti ) is celebrated on October 2nd as a national event across India. This day is observed around the world as the International Day of Non-Violence. Mahatma Gandhi has tirelessly and selflessly contributed to India’s struggle for independence. The ideals of Mahatma Gandhi were satya (truth) and ahimsa (nonviolence). Through his philosophy of truth and non-violence, he paved the way for India’s independence from the British . Mahatma Gandhi was called as the Father of the Nation. It was the harbinger of hope not only for India but for the whole world.
Not only did Mahatma Gandhi significantly contributed to India’s struggle for freedom against the British , but through her iconoclastic vision inspired people all over the world to raise their voices against any form of discrimination – that this either on the basis of caste, color , religion, to name a few. The deep quote from Mahatma Gandhi, “The best way to find you is to you to lose in the service of others “, sums up his disinterested significant contribution to India.A disinterested and iconoclastic man, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi and Putlibai , in a family of Hindu merchant caste in Porbandar , Gujarat.
In 1916, Mahatma Gandhi was arrested for organizing the civil resistance of tens of thousands of landless farmers and serfs in the Champaran district of Bihar, India. Thanks to the 1916 satyagraha Champaran , Mahatma Gandhi, as well as farmers and serfs, opposed the increase in the tax imposed on farmers by the British during the devastating famine. With his fierce determination, Gandhi surprised the British in 1930 with his 440-kilometer walk to the ocean to oppose the British salt monopoly and led the Indians to challenge the British-imposed salt tax. Dandi Mars salt is laid in the history and about 60,000 people were imprisoned a a result of Dandi Mars. Gandhi believed that all human beings are special persons of God and should be treated in the same way regardless of their caste, color , language, creed, region, religion, and ethnicity . Mahatma Gandhi believed in religious pluralism and campaigned for the empowerment of the Untouchables – whom he called Harijans (children of God). In 1942, Gandhi urged the Indians to stop cooperating with the British and called for the Quit India movement.
However, the history and duration of India’s struggle for independence have summer very long and many people sacrificed their lives during the process. Finally, India obtained freedom in August 1947. But Independence was followed by horrible Partition. Following the partition and witness of religious violence related to the making of India and Pakistan after India’s independence in 1947, Gandhi undertook countless fasts to the death to end the violence religious. The Father of the Nation was murdered January 30, 1948, after Nathuram Godse had fired three bullets at him at the House Birla, New Delhi.
The father of the nation was a well-read man and an avid writer. His philosophy of ahimsa, satyagraha and civil disobedience remains a powerful philosophy in people’s lives and has helped people around the world find the courage to oppose discrimination. He has written several books in his lifetime: An autobiography – The story of my experiences with the truth; Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule; The key to health are some of the books written by him. The life of Mahatma Gandhi had been a selfless love for his country and, thanks to his hard work, his self-control, his truth and his nonviolence, he raised hope among his compatriots to achieve what they aspire to .