[English Notes] on Speech on Mahatma Gandhi for Teachers Pdf for Exam

One of the most famous leaders of the country and the one who helped India in achieving Independence, Mahatma Gandhi, or the father of our nation. His life could be considered as an open book that teaches everyone many values.

Mahatma Gandhi has been a forever renowned leader of our nation known for his contributions and sacrifices to gain freedom. He believed in simplicity, had a simple attire with the vision to achieve big goals in life. The path chosen by him has led to the betterment of the entire nation. His significant teachings give us life lessons. The greatness of Mahatma Gandhi is difficult to express in a few words. We’ll try and remember a few of his excellent deeds to cherish the golden times. 

Below 2 speeches on Mahatma Gandhi are given, a long speech in English for students of 600 words and a short speech on Mahatma Gandhi of 300 words. These speeches on Mahatma Gandhi will help students to understand his life and the struggle with which he helped to achieve Independence in our country. 

The entire life of Mahatma Gandhi is a source of inspiration for everybody out there. From being an introverted child to becoming a national hero and the reason we are living freely, who wouldn’t want to know more about his amazing journey. Listening to the story of the great leader never fails to arouse a sense of patriotism in our hearts. The speeches that follow will inform us about Mahatma Gandhi’s contributions to our country.

Elaborated Speech on Mahatma Gandhi

‘Good morning, everyone!’, it’s with great pride and honour that I want to say a few words about the father of our nation Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. 

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869,  at Porbandar, Gujarat. He was the son of the chief minister of Porbandar, Karamchand Gandhi and his mother was Putlibai. He was raised in a very religious background, and from the beginning itself, he was taught about the importance of self-discipline and non-violence. Mahatma Gandhi’s mother, Putilbai, taught him several important virtues of life, which Mahatma Gandhi followed with his whole heart. This is the reason he is said to be a man of great values.

At the age of 19, Gandhi left his home to study law in London. Time passed and in 1891 he started his law practice in Bombay court. As he found success, he was approached to represent an Indian firm in South Africa. 

With his wife Kasturbai and his children, he lived in South Africa for almost 20 years. 

So you may be thinking- what resulted in him fighting for the independence of the country?

So here we begin the lessons we get to learn from his actions- ‘We shape our destiny by making our own decisions.’ Every decision has a backstory, and so made his decision to fight for the country.

Well as he was an Indian immigrant in South Africa he had to face a lot of discrimination. 

Once Gandhi was on a train journey where he was beaten and thrown out of the first-class compartment by a white driver as he refused to give up his seat to a European passenger. 

This incident is considered to be a turning point in Gandhi’s life as it resulted in him reflecting upon the situation of how Indians are treated in society. That day Gandhiji decided to bring in a good change for the betterment of the people, and the enthusiastic leader never backed off. He could not tolerate the indiscrimination and the biased behaviour. 

He realised that a lot of other brown people like him also go through the same harassment. So he decided to fight instead of ignoring the situation. This shows his courage and intolerance to incorrect actions. No other man would choose to stay in a country where he gets humiliated, but Gandhi was firm in his opinion to face and fight against injustice. He decided to stay back in South Africa and rescue the people facing these kinds of issues.

Initially, Gandhi started teaching everyone the concept of truth and firmness or satyagraha. He believed that passive resistance was the only way to fight against violence, discrimination, and injustice everyone faced and through passive resistance only can freedom be achieved. 

In July 1914, after spending almost 20 years in South Africa, Gandhi returned to India. In 1919, Gandhi launched an organized campaign of passive resistance against the Rowlatt Act. He had to withdraw his campaign against the Rowlatt act after witnessing the massacre done by 400 British-led Indian soldiers. And by 1919, he was the most visible leader in the movement for Indian Independence. His decision to stay back in South Africa changed the destiny of our nation. Not one of the many brave efforts he took for our nation went in vain. 

After many attempts which included numerous fast and non-violent protests against British rule, India was finally granted Independence by the British in 1947 but split the country into 2 colonies: India and Pakistan. Gandhiji was against this decision which divided the country but finally agreed upon thinking that Hindus and Muslims would achieve peace internally after partition. Gandhi looked for the good in every situation and hence is known as the father of our nation.

On January 30, 1948, Gandhiji was on his way back from an evening prayer in New Delhi when he was shot dead by Nathuram Godse. He was a Hindu Fanatic who was furious about the fact that Gandhi was against the partition and was negotiating on cancelling it. 

The next day, millions mourned and he was cremated on the banks of the Holy Jumna river.

You all might wonder why many leaders gave their lives for our country, but what makes Mahatma Gandhi so special? His leadership qualities, noteworthy principles, unending dedication to attain freedom, mindset, and more make the man the father of the entire nation. The amount of respect Gandhi gained has no limits. We, as Indians, have our hearts filled with major respect for the great man and the people living in foreign countries.   

To conclude this speech I wanna say that Mahatma Gandhi’s life is an open book through which many things could be learned. His passive resistance approach to solving life and the way he was always in a state of self-discipline, if implemented by everyone, could lead to success. He loved each one of us. He kept many fasts as there were riots due to partition in 1947 and he tried his best to stop it but in the end, he was shot dead by a lunatic. It is very sad to see that to this day people are fighting in the country in the name of religion. If we love and respect him, and all the freedom fighters who fought to achieve independence in our country, we should be Indians first and stop violence in the name of religion. 

Short Speech on Mahatma Gandhi

‘Good morning, everyone!’, Today we are here to give a small tribute to the father of our nation and the man who fills our hearts with respect.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, Gujarat. He was the son of the chief minister of Porbandar, Karamchand Gandhi and his mother was Putlibai. He was raised in a very religious background and from the beginning, he was taught about the value of self-discipline and nonviolence. Therefore, by this, we come to know that Gandhi got his virtues from his mother.

At the age of 19, Gandhi left his home to study law in London, and in 1891 he was asked to represent an Indian firm in South Africa. With his wife, Kasturbai, and his children, Gandhi lived in South Africa for almost 20 years.

Being an Indian immigrant in South Africa, he had to face a lot of discrimination. Once he was travelling on a train where he was asked to give up his first-class seat to a European traveller. He refused and as a result of that, he was beaten and thrown out of the train by a white driver. This incident is considered to be the turning point in Gandhi’s life as it made him think about how Indians are abused by the British. Gandhi Ji decided to stay back in South Africa and fight for the injustice that he and his fellow brown people had to endure.

He started teaching everyone passive resistance and in July 1914, after spending almost 20 years in South Africa, Gandhi returned to India to get its Independence. 

Gandhi brought about non-violent ways to fight the humiliation. He carried out various movements, which included fasting of a major crowd. After achieving success, he demonstrated to the world that justice could be achieved without violence. Every step taken by the great leader teaches us a valuable lesson. We may not have him with us anymore, but we surely have his praiseworthy principles to follow, which will help us get through any tough situation in life.

Finally, in 1947, the British gave India its independence but divided the country into 2 colonies: India and Pakistan. Gandhi was against the partition. 

On January 30, 1948, Gandhiji was on his way back from an evening prayer in New Delhi when he was shot dead by Nathuram Godse. He was a Hindu Fanatic who was furious about the fact that Gandhi was against the partition and was negotiating on cancelling it. The next day millions mourned and he was cremated on the banks of the Holy Jumna river.

I want to conclude by saying that the life of Mahatma Gandhi is an open book where we could learn how to approach life and the importance of non-violence. The principles of non-violence, honesty and consistency are the three weapons to rescue from the war of any hardship in life. He lived for the betterment of the country and he died for the country. Thank you.  

10 Lines on Speech on Mahatma Gandhi in English

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2 1869 at Porbandar Gujarat.

He was the son of the Chief Minister of Porbandar, Karamchand Gandhi and his mother was Putlibai.

At the age of 19, Gandhi left his home to study law in London, and in 1891, he was asked to represent an Indian firm in South Africa.

With his wife, Kasturbai and his children, Gandhi lived in South Africa for almost 20 years.

Once Gandhi was on a train journey where he was beaten and thrown out of the first-class compartment by a white driver as he refused to give up his seat to a European passenger. This incident is considered to be a turning point in Gandhi’s life. 

Gandhi chose to stay back in South Africa and fight for injustice. Gandhi started teaching everyone the concept of truth and firmness or satyagraha. He believed that passive resistance was the only way to fight against violence and discrimination.

In July 1914, after spending almost 20 years in South Africa, Gandhi returned to India and in 1919, launched an organized campaign of passive resistance against the Rowlatt Act.

India was finally granted Independence by the British in 1947 but split into 2 colonies: India and Pakistan. 

Gandhi was against this decision which divided the country but finally agreed upon thinking that Hindus and Muslims would achieve peace internally after partition. 

On January 30, 1948, Gandhiji was on his way back from an evening prayer in New Delhi when he was shot dead by Nathuram Godse. This concludes that he lived for our country and died for our country.