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2 days ago · Signature. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; [pron 1] 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
2 days ago · Mahatma Gandhi (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India—died January 30, 1948, Delhi) was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India. As such, he came to be considered the father of his country.
- Initially, Gandhi’s campaigns sought to combat the second-class status Indians received at the hands of the British regime. Eventually, however, th...
- Gandhi’s family practiced a kind of Vaishnavism, one of the major traditions within Hinduism, that was inflected through the morally rigorous tenet...
- Within India, Gandhi’s philosophy lived on in the messages of reformers such as social activist Vinoba Bhave. Abroad, activists such as Martin Luth...
- Gandhi’s father was a local government official working under the suzerainty of the British Raj, and his mother was a religious devotee who—like th...
- As lauded a figure as Gandhi has become, his actions and beliefs didn’t escape the criticism of his contemporaries. Liberal politicians thought he...
11 hours ago · Modeled after the iconic tawaifs of Bombay cinema, Bhansali’s courtesans -- be it Chandramukhi in Devdas (2002), or the feisty tawaifs of Heeramandi (2024) -- militate against the normative ...
May 24, 2024 · On May 23, Bhansali's Devdas will premiere in an out-of-competition section at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. For the film industry, Devdas is a massive gamble. This year is set to make history as Bollywood's 'worst year ever-according to Trade Guide's Taran Adarsh, of the 120 films released this year, 119 have lost money.
6 days ago · Devdas is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language period romantic drama film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and produced by Bharat Shah under his banner, Mega Bollywood. It stars Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit in lead roles, with Jackie Shroff, Kirron Kher, Smita Jaykar, and Vijayendra Ghatge in supporting roles.
May 19, 2024 · If victory could be achieved solely through family and emotions, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, Rajmohan Gandhi (the learned and honest son of Devdas Gandhi), would not have been defeated by Rajiv Gandhi by about 271,000 votes in the 1989 elections.
May 22, 2024 · Gandhi Smarak Nidhi May 22, 2024 Blog A week after the martyrdom on 30 th January, 1948 of Father of Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, one of the historic decisions taken at the working committee of All India Congress Committee was to create a national trust in his memory- to be called the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, i.e., the ‘Gandhi National Memorial Trust’.
