JANASENA Posted June 16, 2014 Report Posted June 16, 2014 Synopsis: Born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India, Mahatma Gandhi studied law and came to advocate for the rights of Indians, both at home and in South Africa. Gandhi became a leader of India's independence movement, organizing boycotts against British institutions in peaceful forms of civil disobedience. He was killed by a fanatic in 1948. Spiritual and Political Leader: Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Kathiawar, India. He studied law in London, England, but in 1893 went to South Africa, where he spent 20 years opposing discriminatory legislation against Indians. As a pioneer of Satyagraha, or resistance through mass non-violent civil disobedience, he became one of the major political and spiritual leaders of his time. Satyagraha remains one of the most potent philosophies in freedom struggles throughout the world today. Fight for Indian Liberation: In 1914, Gandhi returned to India, where he supported the Home Rule movement, and became leader of the Indian National Congress, advocating a policy of non-violent non-co-operation to achieve independence. His goal was to help poor farmers and laborers protest oppressive taxation and discrimination. He struggled to alleviate poverty, liberate women and put an end to caste discrimination, with the ultimate objective being self-rule for India. Following his civil disobedience campaign (1919-22), he was jailed for conspiracy (1922-24). In 1930, he led a landmark 320 km/200 mi march to the sea to collect salt in symbolic defiance of the government monopoly. On his release from prison (1931), he attended the London Round Table Conference on Indian constitutional reform. In 1946, he negotiated with the Cabinet Mission which recommended the new constitutional structure. After independence (1947), he tried to stop the Hindu-Muslim conflict in Bengal, a policy which led to his assassination in Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu fanatic. Death and Legacy: Even after his death, Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and his belief in simple living—making his own clothes, eating a vegetarian diet and using fasts for self-purification as well as a means of protest—have been a beacon of hope for oppressed and marginalized people throughout the world.
JANASENA Posted June 16, 2014 Author Report Posted June 16, 2014 Mahatma Gandhi Was Killed By Nathuram Godse: Assassination of Gandhi: Godse assassinated Mahatma Gandhi on January 30, 1948, approaching him during the evening prayer, bowing, and shooting him three times at close range with a Beretta semi-automatic pistol. After the incident, he did not run away but stood at the spot and voluntarily gave himself up to the police. Trial and execution: Following his assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, he was put on trial beginning May 27, 1948. During the trial, he did not defend any charge and openly admitted that he killed Gandhi. On November 8, 1949 Godse was sentenced to death for the murder of Mahatma Gandhi. Godse’s legal team was savaged by critics for not introducing considerable evidence that their client was mentally unbalanced and/or manipulated by others. Among those calling for commutation of the death sentence for the defendants were Jawaharlal Nehru, as well as Gandhi’s two sons who felt that the two men on trial were pawns of RSS higher-ups, and in any case, executing their father’s killers would dishonor his memory and legacy which included a staunch opposition to the death penalty. Godse was hanged at Ambala Jail on November 15, 1949 , along with Narayan Apte, the other conspirator. Savarkar was also charged with conspiracy in the assassination of Gandhi, but was acquitted and subsequently released. Godse stipulated that his ashes were not to be deposited in a body of water according to Hindu dictates, but rather were to be held in storage until they could be deposited in the Sindhu river after Pakistan had been reunited with India. Nathuram's self prepared defense in the court: Nathuram Godse was arrested immedeatly after the assassination of Gandhi. A journalist was managed to see him in a cell of Tughlaq road police station and try to interview him, but he denied to answer any question and replyed ‘For the present I only want to say that I am not at all sorry for what I have done, rest I will explain in court‘. After preliminary investigations police came to know that he was the editor of a Marathi newspaper Hindu Rashtra and a well-known member of the HIndu Mahasabha. Very streight forward, sober, intelligent, the thirty-seven-year-old bachelor hardly seemed a candidate for the role of assassin. During the whole process of investigation and trial nobody observed him to say anything wrong against gandhi, he even mentioned very clearly few times that he had no personal hatred of Gandhi. During his trial he also mentioned ‘Before I fired the shots I actually wished him well and bowed to him in reverence‘. On 8 November 1948, Nathuram Godse was allowed his day in the sun and to make his statement. Reading from a typed ninety-pages manuscript (available below), where he explain very clearly why he had killed Gandhi, and he was on his feet for five hours during this time point by point he explain in clear cut language every single reason for his action without any regret.
timmy Posted June 22, 2014 Report Posted June 22, 2014 Dr,Ambedkar on Gandhi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FNSQcEx02A
timmy Posted June 22, 2014 Report Posted June 22, 2014 Dr,Ambedkar on Gandhi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FNSQcEx02A
pythonic Posted June 22, 2014 Report Posted June 22, 2014 Dr,Ambedkar on Gandhi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FNSQcEx02A ee audio venandhi people....pls comment after that...
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