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4 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.
18 hours ago · Rahul Rajiv Gandhi ( Hindi pronunciation: [ˈraːɦʊl raːdʒiːʋ ˈɡaːndʱiː] ⓘ; born 19 June 1970) is an Indian politician. A member of the Indian National Congress (INC), he has served as the 12th Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha and as the member of the Lok Sabha for Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh, since June 2024.
5 days ago · Writer Colin Brezicki has a unique analogy for his creative process — he says that we carry stories inside us like embryos surrounded by amniotic fluid. “The fluid is made up of your reading, your experiences, your friends, people you’ve met, incidents that have happened,” he told The Lake Report. “Everything just goes in there and ...
4 days ago · In March 1930 he launched the Salt March, a satyagraha against the British-imposed tax on salt, which affected the poorest section of the community. One of the most spectacular and successful campaigns in Gandhi’s nonviolent war against the British raj, it resulted in the imprisonment of more than 60,000 people.
5 days ago · Published: 04 Jul 2024, 7:45 PM. Leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi met labourers in New Delhi on Thursday, 4 July, and asserted that providing full rights and respect to those involved in manual labour is the mission of his life. He met workers at Guru Tegh Bahadur Nagar in Delhi and listened to their problems.
4 days ago · Mahatma Gandhi - Nonviolence, Resistance, India: Gandhi was not the man to nurse a grudge. On the outbreak of the South African (Boer) War in 1899, he argued that the Indians, who claimed the full rights of citizenship in the British crown colony of Natal, were in duty bound to defend it. He raised an ambulance corps of 1,100 volunteers, out of whom 300 were free Indians and the rest indentured laborers. It was a motley crowd: barristers and accountants, artisans and laborers. It was Gandhi ...
3 days ago · John Calvin (born July 10, 1509, Noyon, Picardy, France—died May 27, 1564, Geneva, Switzerland) was a theologian and ecclesiastical statesman. He was the leading French Protestant reformer and the most important figure in the second generation of the Protestant Reformation. His interpretation of Christianity, advanced above all in his ...
