Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.
Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.
Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.
The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.
True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.
Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.
Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.
Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.
In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.
Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.
Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.