Mahatma Gandhi: The Father of our Nation
Mahatma Gandhi: The Father of our Nation Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is also known as Mahatma Gandhi. He was referred to as ‘Mahatma’ by Rabindranath Tagore. Ahimsa was his motto and he practised it till his last breath. The world sat up and took notice when he pioneered India’s freedom movement that culminated with the independence of India in the year 1947. Gandhi was inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s “civil disobedience “, John Ruskin and Leo Tolstoy and his non-violence. Did you know that he was nominated for Nobel peace prize 5 times! Surprisingly, he also started 3 football clubs in South Africa known as the Passive Resisters Football club. Bapu was born in the Porbandar, Gujarat, India in a Hindu family on 2 nd of October in 1869. As a great freedom fighter, he got arrested and sent to jail many times but he continued fighting against British rule for the justice of Indians. He was a great believer in non-violence and unity of people of all religions which he followed a