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  drishti april 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Gandhiji had also pointed out that all religious texts suggest that mankind must dedicate the main part of existence for achieving spiritual goals investigating the true nature of life, its purpose and goals and to achieve self-realization.
Gandhiji pointed out that due to the lack of proper guidance and a wavering faith in Indian philosophy Indians were accepting these charges and were trying to civilize themselves.
Gandhiji s work stopped very early, after achieving only 10% of his true goals and there was truly no one to carry on his work.
www.ou.edu /student/spicmacy/dris_apr96/mahatma.htm   (929 words)

  
 4 - Gandhiji and Independence :: May it Please Your Honour :: NathuramGodse.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This upset Gandhiji beyond endurance and he expressed his anger in the Mahatmic manner full of concentrated venom by stating that the success of Subhash was his defeat and not that of Dr. Pattabhai.
Gandhiji's non-violence- had died within few weeks of the starting the 'Quit India' campaign while the violence that was being committed under that flame found no favour with him.
Gandhiji was opposed to Subhash Chandra Bose's invasion of India.
www.nathuramgodse.com /index.php?MayItPleaseYourHonour=4   (3690 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Gandhiji had the satisfaction to see that Khadi was in greater vogue among the women of Bengal than among those of any other Indian Province and that though the purdah was very much in evidence there, all of the women removed their veils before Gandhiji and a large number even before his party.
Gandhiji was accorded a welcome in the Poet's ' Uttarayan.' A thin cotton carpet with various designs on it was spread in front of a gadi and cushions.
Gandhiji, therefore, arranged a spinning competition between this new wheel and the one in common use.
www.forget-me.net /en/Gandhi/day2day7.txt   (23759 words)

  
 Gandhiji - a Votary of Sustainable living
Gandhiji not only gave us freedom but he also gave the world and us a new thought on nonviolence and sustainable living.
Gandhiji's message of nonviolence and sustainable living is a continuation of that long tradition.
Gandhiji was a highly evolved and spiritual human being.
education.vsnl.com /nimbkar/gandhiji.html   (675 words)

  
 archive: The people's leaders
Gandhiji mediated and moved a resolution which declared that if the British Government was not prepared to grant dominion status to India within a year, the Congress would be compelled to change its course and would demand complete independence.
Gandhiji was deeply concerned by the different reactions of Nehru and Subhas to the resolution.
Gandhiji knew that very few people would cooperate with the British, therefore, he felt it would be better to take the country on the path of agitation.
www.media-watch.org /articles/0499/87.html   (2154 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi Album: Gandhi and Status of Women
Gandhiji claimed that a woman is completely equal to a man and practiced it in strict sense.
For Gandhiji, the freedom fight was not political alone; it was also an economic and social reform of a national proportion.
Gandhiji once noted during his legendary travels across India that he never came across 13 year old who was not married.
www.kamat.com /mmgandhi/gwomen.htm   (1488 words)

  
 The Hindu : Gandhiji's socio-political agenda
The first two chapters carry a rapid but out-of-the-ordinary narration of Gandhiji's life and his role in India's freedom struggle, also touching briefly on the course of freedom movement before the advent of Gandhiji on the Indian scene and the parallel phases of revolutionary violence and constitutional reforms.
For instance, in the chapter on ahimsa and satyagraha, he refers to Gandhiji's firm belief that non-violent suffering of a satyagrahi melted the heart of the adversary, thus impelling him to reach a settlement by compromise.
The chapter on the removal of untouchability veers round the author's postulate that Gandhiji's "heart was with the institution of caste and Hindu orthodoxy while his head favoured the removal of an inhuman practice." In this, Gandhiji's earlier views on the merits in principle of the bygone Varnashrama dharma comes handy to the author.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/br/2002/01/29/stories/2002012900140300.htm   (1102 words)

  
 Chinmaya Mission of Austin home page
While taking a test, Gandhiji had refused to cheat, even though his teacher prompted him; she had wanted to create a good impression on the Inspector of Schools.However, inspite of being scolded by his teacher for not getting a perfect score, he knew he had done the right thing.
Gandhiji did not like deceiving his parents by lying to them.He therefore stopped eating meat outside his home, confessed his wrong-doing, and demonstrated self-discipline.
Gandhiji gave up his smoking habit because it led him to steal money; he had even stolen his brother's gold bracelet because of that.
www.angelfire.com /tx2/chinmaya/sp02nl3.html   (663 words)

  
 SOME REMARKABLE EUROPEAN WOMEN WHO HELPED GANDHIJI IN SOUTH AFRICA
Gandhiji led a seven-year long struggle in South Africa from 1907 to 1914 for the security and dignity of the Indian settlers in that country who were subjected to humiliations by the white rulers.
The admiration of Gandhiji to Olive Schreiner was reciprocated.
Gandhiji's wife, Kasturba, insisted on joining the satyagraha, despite her poor health, and was in the first batch from Natal which crossed the Transvaal border in defiance of the law.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/people/gandhi/6.html   (5381 words)

  
 Gandhiji: The Greatest Competitor Ever   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Gandhiji in this sense is an inspiration for generations to come and in that we are all lucky and proud that he was born in India.
Gandhiji was a true competitor in that he minimized his weakness and in this he was able to excel and we all know that he almost had no weaknesses.
Gandhiji was selected as one of the top 100 Geniuses ever to be born in the world, according to a study conducted by a British team, as reported in the respected Magazine London Economist.
www.reformindia.com /krishna7.html   (690 words)

  
 Gandhi
Gandhiji launched a civil disobedience against these taxes by walking from his ashram in Ahmedabad to the beach at Dandi and tasted salt there.
Gandhiji was often imprisoned in either the Aga Khan Palace or the Yeravada Jail.
Gandhiji was operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Poona on January 12, 1924.
www.spiritualjourneys.net /Tours/Gandhi.htm   (779 words)

  
 Netaji & Gandhiji
While Gandhiji advocated non-violence and talks with the British, Netaji was of the opinion that there should be no compromise with the British and that every means should be used to free India.
Gandhiji, while out rightly rejecting the suggestion that he was sympathetic to the Japanese, chided the British media for its blatant hypocrisy.
Gandhiji dealt the issue of Netaji's reported death in Harijan under the title, 'Is Netaji Alive?'.
netaji.netfirms.com /netaji/ng.htm   (1072 words)

  
 DNA [Daily News & Analysis] - Opinion - Combating terrorism, differently   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Gandhiji was concerned with the morality of personal behaviour, but not just with that, and we would undervalue the wide reach of his political thinking if we try to see non-violence simply as a code of behaviour.
Gandhiji’s ideas about preventing violence went far beyond that, and involved social institutions and public priorities, as well as individual beliefs and commitments.
The disastrous consequences of defining people by their religious ethnicity, and giving priority to the community-based perspective, which Gandhiji thought was receiving support from India’s British rulers, may well have come, alas, to haunt the country of the rulers themselves.
www.dnaindia.com /report.asp?NewsID=8698   (776 words)

  
 WELCOME: WWW.JAINSAMAJ.ORG
The dedication of Gandhiji towards truth depicts that even today such a truthful person can exist, then there is no surprise that there was the environment of complete truth at the time of Arhihants.
Gandhiji used to have political difference with him Shastriji saw in Europe in 1914 that Gandhiji used to bandage the bodies of Persons suffering from terrible leprosy and similar diseases.
Gandhiji was educated in Rajkot and thereat he had taken a vow from a Sadhumargi Jain Mahatama Swami to abstain from non-vegetarian food, drinking alcohol and prostitution.
jainsamaj.org /literature/gandhiji.htm   (2638 words)

  
 Gandhi in South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Gandhiji’s father, Karamchand Gandhi was the Dewan of the state of Porbandar.
At age thirteen, Gandhiji was married to Kasturba, the daughter of a merchant at Porbandar.
Gandhiji was especially shocked because he was a well-dressed barrister who was from England where he would have been treated with respect [4].
www.iasf.org /sen.html   (1322 words)

  
 Dr. Sushila Nayar
Gandhiji ordered her to deal with the problem with “village as the hospital and the houses as the wards”.
This was the most tumultuous year in the freedom struggle movement: Gandhiji had asked Indians to sacrifice their lives for achieving freedom.
Gandhiji asked her to shift to the guesthouse built by Birla.
www.mgims.net /sushilanayar.htm   (961 words)

  
 The Hindu : Karnataka / Mangalore News : `Scientists have realised value of Gandhiji's ideas'
Moily said Gandhiji's thoughts were applicable in the universal context.
Moily said Gandhiji had spoken on organic farming and the need to adopt it during his period.
Patil said Gandhiji believed that the government should have the minimum role in administration.
www.hinduonnet.com /2005/03/24/stories/2005032414000300.htm   (407 words)

  
 ``I am a Sindhi'' --- Gandhi
Gandhiji was properly received -and brought to the college campus in a horse-carriage lent on the spot by a local zamindar-friend of Kripalani --- and pulled by the students, against Gandhiji's wishes.
Gandhiji was particularly upset when Jamshed Mehta, the mayor of Karachi and a great Congress sympathiser, moved a resolution in 1928, to rescind the earlier 1924 resolution of Karachi Corporation, prescribing Khadi uniforms for Corporation peons and scavengers.
Gandhiji won the point, but in view of the walk-out, he said the amendment might be taken as passed.
yangtze.cs.uiuc.edu /~jamali/sindh/story/node17.html   (4881 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi Album: Story of Satyagraha
Gandhiji felt that laws which were totally against the welfare of the people, could be fought peacefully by organizing mass-protests in a civil way.
A new word had to be coined-based entirely on the ideology of non violence as Gandhiji termed conceived.
Gandhiji was fully aware of the harm involved in Civil Disobedience launched before without preparations.
www.kamat.com /mmgandhi/satyagraha.htm   (473 words)

  
 Hind Musafir Agency Pvt. Ltd. -  Wardha (Gandhiji's Home)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Gandhiji came to Wardha, since he wished to stay in a village – to do some work for the villagers, Jamnalal Bajaj made his resources available to Gandhiji, to set up his ashram and initiate his activities.
Gandhiji, When left Sabarmati Ashram after the non co-operation movement, he was invited by Shri Jamnalal Bajaj to Wardha, and after staying for some time at Wardha, he decided to stay in a village and hence shifted to Sewagram.
Jamnalal Bajaj provided the land of the ashram site and Gandhiji stayed here from 1934 onwards, the premises of the ashram are still maintained in their original state, it is a good place to visit and especially the evening prayers at the ashram.
www.hmatravel.com /special/specialwardha.htm   (1839 words)

  
 An Atheist With Gandhi
In rendering an account of his work to Gandhiji, he had occasion to describe the atheistic approach to the problem of untouchability -- a work with which he was intimately associated during the two years he was with us in the village of Mudunur.
Gandhiji's reaction conformed to the common meaning of atheism, namely that atheism is something incapable of and even contrary to goodness and goodwill.
Secondly, Gandhiji had the same views and prejudices against atheism as the common man. But in his characteristic way he clothed them with courtesy, when he remarked that the present conduct of people gave room for the spread of atheism.
www.positiveatheism.org /india/gora12.htm   (4617 words)

  
 Gandhiji's Legacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Swaraj or Freedom that Gandhiji dreamed was not merely of a political character.
Gandhiji taught that knowledge and wealth devoid of religion and morals led to the fall of men.
Mahatma Gandhiji, called 'Bapu' by his loving countrymen, will ever be remembered as a saint and a great leader of men.
www.freeindia.org /biographies/freedomfighters/gandhiji/page14.htm   (484 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi and Truth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Gandhiji saw how much Harishchandra had to suffer to be truthful.
Gandhiji was influenced by different religions in his life.
Gandhiji used to say, "If someone is kind and generous to us, we should return that favor; but we should be kind and generous even to those who do not possess those qualities." Mahatma Gandhi was virtuous and will always be remembered for that.
www.jainworld.com /education/level2/lesson13.htm   (317 words)

  
 Gandhiji's Care & Concern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Gandhiji did not hesitate but welcomed him inside, took him to an adjoining room, dressed his wounds, gave him food and made him stay as his guest.
On his return to India, Gandhiji came to Madras with Mr.Srinivasa Sastri, when he learnt that a senior founder-member of the Indian National Congress was confined to bed with leprosy.
Gandhiji went to his house and when he found that the patient was in his last days and socially shunned, he made anxious enquiries with him and wiped his wounds with the ends of his own garments, while Sastri stood stunned.
www.indianleprosy.org /GandhiJayanti1.htm   (275 words)

  
 My first Visit to Gandhiji - Tan Yun-Shan
He lost no time to send a wire to Gandhiji who replied immediately that I was welcome to Bardoli and that he would be staying there for a few days more.
Gandhiji was sitting and spining on the mattress, supported by the pillow; and the pillow and the mattress were backed by the wall.
Gandhiji's message to the Chinese students along with his reply to His Holiness, the late Dalai Lama, had already reached my Calcutta address.
www.ignca.nic.in /ks_40040.htm   (3432 words)

  
 M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence :: Items by Topic: Gandhi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The simplicity, kindliness and charm of Gandhiji's nature, the depth and range of hi sympathies, and the keenness of his humor and laughter cast a spell on all who came near him.
He was always particularly relaxed in the company of children, and always hada word of cheer for the old and the infirm.
Another cause dear to Gandhiji was that of education.
www.gandhiinstitute.org /Library/Gandhi.cfm   (622 words)

  
 Quiz On Gandhi
Q.9 Gandhiji, the hero of the satyagraha struggle of the Indians in South Africa, landed in Bombay on ____________.
Q.11 Gandhiji's first major struggle in the country was stagged on the soil of Champaran district in Bihar in 1917 in connection with indigo plantation.
Q.33 The Poona or Yeravda Pact was the immediate outcome of the fast that Gandhiji had undertaken on the issue of the Communal Award and it was only after it had been signed by all the parties concerned that paved the way for him to break his fast.
www.gandhi-manibhavan.org /main/quiz.htm   (1324 words)

  
 Gandhiji   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
I'm not sure if this would be for all categories or a 20th century prize for the peace category only.
Thanks for such a great place to research Gandhiji.
And I would like to be able to refer people to the actual text or, extended excerpts of it.
www.indiaspace.com /gandhiji.htm   (326 words)

  
 INSPIRING STORIES FROM GANDHIJI'S LIFE
Gandhiji was gentle but firm, "But the promise was made by Manilal." "Very well, Manilal will go but let me go with him," Kalyan Bhai pleaded.
One day Gandhiji and Vallabhbhai Patel were talking in the Yaravada jail when Gandhiji remarked, "At times even a dead snake can be of use." And he related the following story to illustrate his point: Once a snake entered the house of an old woman.
She told Gandhiji that the stone was lost and added, "It must have been left behind at the weaver's where we stayed yesterday.
www.mkgandhi-sarvodaya.org /story.htm   (2159 words)

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