Gandhi - apostle of non violence

From: The Malay Mail | Date: March 11, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

AS India celebrated its 55th anniversary as an independent nation this year, the country seems far away from the values of love, peace and non- violence its founding father advocated.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the Gujarati lawyer better known as Mahathma Gandhi (Great Soul), used non-violent agitation and mass action to oust British colonial rule in his homeland.

His country's first major birth pain was when it was split into two nations, namely Pakistan and India, and this culminated in bloodshed and thousands of deaths.

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