“IN A GENTLE WAY, YOU CAN SHAKE THE WORLD”
2nd October is celebrated as one of the most auspicious days in India as it marks the birth anniversary of the father of the nation Mohan Das Karam Chandra Gandhi also known as Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi played a huge role in India’s Freedom Movement.
He was a part of India’s first freedom movement i.e Champaran Satyagraha (1917). He believed in non-violence, social welfare, and equality. Some of the other freedom struggles that Mahatma Gandhi played a huge role in were Kheda Satyagraha (1917 -1918), Khilafat Movement (1919), Non-Cooperation Movement (1920), Civil-Disobedience Movement (1930), and Quit India Movement (1942). His contribution to these movements and his belief in non-violence and social well-being earned him the title of FATHER OF THE NATION, we also call him Bapu in India.
Mahatma Gandhi was born on 2nd October 1869 in Porbandar in Gujarat. He finished his schooling in Ahmedabad and 1888 he went to London to study law. When he visited South Africa, he witnessed discrimination while he was travelling by train and a white man ordered him to get out of the first class as he was not white. He was thrown out of the train. Gandhi Ji faced discrimination in South Africa and when he decided to fight against this and soon citizens across the country joined his civil disobedience movement.
October 2nd is also celebrated as International Day of Nonviolence in memory of Gandhi Ji. Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead by Nathuram Ghodse at a public gathering on 30th January 1948 in New Delhi. Gandhi Ji influenced a large mass of people as noticed in his Dandi Salt March in 1930 and Quit India Movement in 1942. Every day this year the leaders of India pay tribute to him at Raj Ghat, the samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi.
AASTHA SINGH
