By Fakir Balaji Bengaluru, Sep 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) As the Father of the Nation and a hope for thousands of people during the first half of the 20th century, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was a source…
By Anindya Banerjee New Delhi, Sep 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Mahatma Gandhi was a staunch Hindu and definitely one of the earliest examples in Indian polity where religion was used for political purpose. Much ahead of BJP…
By Saroj Kumar New Delhi, Sep 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Mob lynching, the scourge of India that has led to nearly a 100 hundred deaths in the past few years, is hardly a new phenomenon. Around 125…
By Manoj Pathak Motihari (Bihar), Sep 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Champaran — the workplace of Mahatma Gandhi, has many memories of the Mahatma. A ‘Neem tree’ in East Champaran district is one of them. The tree situated…
Chennai, Sep 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) It is a known fact that Mahatma Gandhi travelled in trains, that too, in the third class compartment and later that class was abolished by the railways. A cursory look at…
New Delshi, Sep 28 (IANS) Though the ‘Make-in-India’ initiative to encourage self-reliance in the country was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, its seeds were sown several decades ago by the Father of…
By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, Sep 28 (IANS) Mahatma Gandhi’s great-grandson Tushar Arun Gandhi says those who killed the Father of the Nation are so intimidated by him that they are still trying to demonise him…
Hajipur, Sep 28 (IANS) Bogies of Saptkranti Express, which runs between Muzaffarpur and Anand Vihar via Champaran, the work place of Mahatama Gandhi, will have on display photographs of events from his life. “‘Mohan to…
Narsinghpur (MP), Sep 28 (IANS) The Gandhi cap may be a rare sight these days, but there is a school in Madhya Pradesh’s Narsinghpur where children wear the Gandhi cap everyday in school. Not only…
New Delhi, Sep 28 (IANS) In a world ridden with conflicts, Mahatma Gandhi’s principles of non-violence remain relevant nearly a century later, say experts citing the examples of Hong Kong and Sudan. Angshuman Choudhury, Senior…
By Natalia Ningthoujam New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, fondly known as Mahatma Gandhi, breathed his last on January 30, 1948, but he has been brought alive on the big screen several times….
By Manoj Pathak Patna, Sep 27 (IANS) Shram Bharti ‘Khadigram’ was constituted to fulfil the dream of Mahatma Gandhi to make people self-sufficient after Independence but the organisation itself is seeking aid from others. The…
By Quaid Najmi Mumbai, Sep 27 (IANS) For Mumbai businessman Kishore Jhunjhunwalla, what started as a curiosity for Mohandas K. Gandhi, five decades ago, soon became a passion and then a haunting obsession which has…
New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) Mahatma Gandhi, whose 150th birth anniversary is being celebrated by the country, had learnt his first lessons in non-violence and satyagraha in South Africa where he practised law. Before returning…
By Anindya Banerjee New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) When one thinks of two persons poles apart in terms of political ideology in pre-Independent India, one can easily think of the two gentlemen who later went…
By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, Sep 27 (IANS) As India gears up to celebrate 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Birad Rajaram Yajnik is travelling to Paris and Russia in his continuing pursuit of spreading the…