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On this birth anniversary of the father of our nation, let us recommit ourselves to the principles of non-violence, truth, and social justice. By following in the footsteps of Gandhi and contemporary leaders who embody his ideals, we can work towards a more peaceful, equitable, and prosperous world for all.

Southern Asia 70 years ago today: Indian conquest of Hyderabad (17 Sep 1948) https://buff.ly/2D5qhtA Following the end of British rule in India, the Nizam of Hyderabad - a Muslim ruler over a mostly Hindu population - had opted for independence. However, India, locked in war with Pakistan over Kashmir, considered the Nizam a threat and in a 1948 “police action” invaded and annexed Hyderabad. #southernasia #southasia #history #welovemaps #map #1940s #1948 #azadkashmir #britishempire #commonwealth #hyderabad #india #kashmir #pakistan #september #september17 #unitedkingdom #maps #nizam #indianindependence #civilwar (at Hyderabad) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn0k1cyAYrE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tri8jm1o6eng

🏡 Happy Independence Day! #indiaindependenceday #indianindependence #freedom #india #peace #love #education #women #impowerment #learning #movement #punjab #punjabi #pb08 #jalandhar #home #hometown #roots #neverforgetwhereyoucamefrom (at London, United Kingdom)

the father of nonviolence who broke the empire and paid with his life for his moral contradictions da Barbara Bonanno BNNRRB Tramite Flickr: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India, on 1869-10-02 into a family connected to local administration, with a father who served as chief minister of a princely state. Shy and introspective as a youth, he married Kasturba Makhanji at a young age and later traveled to London to study law, qualifying as a barrister. After struggling to establish a career in India, he accepted legal work in South Africa, where he experienced direct racial discrimination that profoundly shaped his political awakening. In South Africa he organized Indian communities against racist legislation, led legal challenges, coordinated protests, and developed the method he later called satyagraha: organized, disciplined, collective resistance based on truth, civil disobedience, and refusal to cooperate with unjust authority. Returning permanently to India in 1915, Gandhi quickly became a central figure in the independence movement, transforming it from an elite political project into a mass struggle involving peasants, workers, women, and urban poor. He promoted boycotts of British goods, rejection of colonial courts and schools, spinning and wearing khadi as an act of economic resistance, and the building of local self-sufficiency. In 1930 he led the Salt March, walking hundreds of kilometers to the sea to openly violate British salt laws, exposing the absurdity and brutality of imperial control over basic necessities and igniting nationwide civil disobedience. Repeatedly imprisoned, he continued to coordinate non-cooperation campaigns and in 1942 launched the Quit India movement, demanding immediate British withdrawal. Politically, Gandhi insisted that independence had to include moral transformation, communal harmony, and protection of minorities. During the violent partition of India and Pakistan, he undertook hunger strikes and direct interventions to stop massacres and encourage reconciliation between Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs. These positions angered both colonial authorities and Hindu nationalist extremists who wanted a religiously defined state. In his personal life, Gandhi adopted ascetic practices, lived simply, and remained married to Kasturba Gandhi, with whom he had four sons. In his later years he wrote about and permitted what he called “experiments in brahmacharya,” including sleeping naked beside young female relatives as tests of self-control; these practices are documented in his writings and discussed by biographers and are widely considered ethically unacceptable and deeply troubling, even by sympathetic scholars. On 1948-01-30, in New Delhi, while walking to a public prayer meeting, Gandhi was shot at close range by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist extremist who accused him of betraying Hindu interests and being too conciliatory toward Muslims and Pakistan. Gandhi died from his wounds shortly afterward. His assassination removed the most powerful symbol of nonviolent mass resistance of the twentieth century, but his methods of organized civil disobedience, economic boycott, and moral confrontation with power profoundly influenced global struggles for civil rights, decolonization, and social justice, leaving a legacy that remains politically potent and morally contested. I publish these figures to remember who they were and why they died. To show younger generations that many of the injustices they fought against still exist. Because their story is not over, and their sacrifice still matters today.

Let us remember his sacrifice and dedication to India’s freedom, which laid the foundation for future generations of revolutionaries. 🙏✨

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