News / Topic / Gandhi 150 Years On / News

gandhi 150 years on news

Latest from gandhi 150 years on

The man who chronicled Mahatma Gandhi

Mahadev Desai joined Gandhi at 25 as his secretary and maintained diaries that offer a rare insight into the mind of the most secular leader India has seen

Mahatma Gandhi with Mahadev Desai (right) at the All India Congress Committee meeting in Bombay, August 8, 1942, the day that the Quit India resolution was moved.(National)

editors pick

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 08:43 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByNachiketa Desai

Birla House: A visit to the Mahatma

Formerly the house of noted industrialist Ghanshyam Das Birla, the home where MK Gandhi spent his last 144 days is now a museum

Gandhi, a day before his assassination at Birla House, New Delhi.(National Gandhi Museum)

editors pick

Updated on Oct 01, 2020 08:00 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByDhrubo Jyoti

‘I kept feeling that Bapu would wake up any minute’: Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee

Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee spoke about her father’s stint in Hindustan Times, her grandparents, and the changing face of Delhi

Tara Bhattacharjee at her residence in New Delhi.(Amal KS/HT)

editors pick

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 09:00 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByKumKum Dasgupta

Hindustan Times and the Mahatma

When Gandhi inaugurated the Hindustan Times press in 1924, he knew it was time for a paper that reflected sentiments and the shared national agenda of Indians

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi inaugurated the Hindustan Times press in 1924.(KK Chawla/HT Archives)

editors pick

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 09:03 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByDhamini Ratnam

Gandhiji’s name etched in the history of independent India, writes Mohan Bhagwat

Mahatma Gandhi 150th Birth Anniversary: MK Gandhi stood for social equality and harmony, and translated his vision into action. We must perceive, understand and manifest this in our lives.

Mahatma Gandhi with Hindutva icon Syama Prasad Mookerjee, New Delhi, 1946.(Alamy Stock)

india news

Updated on Oct 01, 2020 08:02 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMohan Bhagwat

Essential reading on MK Gandhi

Swami Anand, who persistently urged Gandhi to write his autobiography, introduced the readers to sociological insights about castes and communities

Gandhi after his release from prison, 1924.(gandhi museum)

editors pick

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 09:33 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByTridip Suhrud

A biographer’s journey: In search of the Mahatma

The Collected Works had all the known letters that Gandhi himself wrote; but virtually none of the letters that he received or responded to.

Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru spinning, Delhi.(National)

editors pick

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 08:47 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByRamachandra Guha

Gandhi and Gujarat: At home and in self-imposed exile

The state was his birthplace and the site of his experiments with truth. But it must analyse its points of divergence from the Father of the Nation

At 6.30 am, on March 12, 1930 MK Gandhi, accompanied by co-marchers, left the Sabarmati ashram for Dandi, a coastal village in Gujarat.(HT Photo)

editors pick

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 08:37 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByTridip Suhrud

Gandhi, Ambedkar and the 1932 Poona Pact

The 1931 Poona Pact shaped India’s Dalit political representation, and its implications are felt even in today’s parliamentary elections

The impact of MK Gandhi’s principled resistance to BR Ambedkar’s political demand for separate electorates for the so-called depressed classes lives on.(HT image)

editors pick

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 08:52 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByDhrubo Jyoti

A hyperlocal economic plan

The political consensus was that a newly independent India needed to rapidly industrialise. Instead, Mahatma Gandhi offered a radically different economic path

Gandhi argued for an India of household production for local consumption.

editors pick

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 08:36 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByNiranjan Rajadhyaksha

An experiment in Khadi, and Gandhi’s eastern base

History hangs thick in the air of the Gandhi ashram, as the place is known. A print of a letter written by Gandhi in 1928 adorns the wall next to the bed

A charkha used by Mahatma Gandhi on display at the Gandhi Bhavan (Hyderi Manzil) in Kolkata, where he spent 25 days, including Independence Day, in 1947.(Samir Jana/ht)

editors pick

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 09:40 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnigdhendu Bhattacharya

An archival treasure on Gandhi

Bolstered by his experience of ashram life in South Africa, Gandhi first set up an ashram in the Kochrab area of Ahmedabad, which he later shifted to its present site on the banks of the river Sabarmati.

Pratima behn, a communicator at the Sabarmati ashram, explains aspects of Gandhi’s life.(Raj K Raj/HT)

india news

Updated on Sep 30, 2019 01:09 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByParamita Ghosh

Champaran satyagraha turned into social reform

Gandhi established an ashram-school on land donated by a local priest, Baba Ram Narayan Das, which opened on November 20, 1917, a week after establishing a similar foundation school in Barharwa Lakhansen village 135 km away.

A view of Gandhi's ashram set up in 1917 at the time of the Champaran movement in Bhitiharwa.(Sanchit Khanna/HT)

india news

Updated on Sep 30, 2019 01:06 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByNeyaz Farooquee

1915-16: A tour of the homeland

Gandhi was advised by his mentor Gopalkrishna Gokhale — a freedom fighter who belonged to the ilk of Moderates within the Congress — to tour India for a year

Gandhi started his travels from Bombay and journeyed across the length and breadth of the country, from Kolkata to Ahmedabad, Delhi to Chennai.

editors pick

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 09:11 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByDhamini Ratnam

Growing up in Mahatma Gandhi’s Sevagram Ashram

In 1936, Gandhi decided to personally live and work in villages. He wanted to redirect the educated class in India towards villages.

The school started by MK Gandhi and operated by Anand Niketan at Sevagram Ashram Pratisthan in Wardha, Maharashtra.(Satish Bate/HT)

editors pick

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 09:19 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAbhay Bang

The five Gandhis

One of the ways in which the Dravidian social reformer challenged Brahmanical domination in politics, education and administration in Tamil Nadu was to agitate against caste surnames.

Indian software developer and Cricketer Kaushik Gandhi poses for a picture at his residence in Chennai(Amal KS/ Hindustan Times)

india news

Updated on Sep 30, 2019 01:11 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnigdha Poonam

The Gandhian who brought the charkha to Nepal

Shrestha was born in Kathmandu in 1896. From an early age, he showed signs of being a social reformer. He became one of the leaders of the Satyacharan Malami Guthi that worked to end outdated death related rites and rituals in Nepal.

Tulsi Mehar Shrestha with Jawaharlal Nehru, Nepal.(by special arrangement)

india news

Updated on Nov 04, 2019 02:00 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManjeev Singh Puri

Can Gandhi and Mao ever meet?

Gandhi, an apostle of non violence, and Mao, an unapologetic votary of armed revolution or people’s war. Gandhi, an ascetic who renunciated all state power, and Mao, the Great Helmsman, who exercised all power for 26 years.

Gandhi, 1940s; Revolutionary Chinese leader Mao Tse-Tung, 1949(national gandhi museum)

india news

Updated on Oct 01, 2020 06:26 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByBaburam Bhattarai

Gandhi on trial in South Africa, again

The motion called for the removal of the bronze statue at Gandhi Square — sculpted by Tinka Christopher, it depicts Gandhi as a young activist lawyer in his legal gown — and the renaming of the site after Sophie de Bruyn, a well-known anti-apartheid activist.

The Gandhi statue in Johannesburg that political party Economic Freedom Fighters sought to remove.(András Osvát / Wikimedia Commons)

india news

Updated on Oct 01, 2020 06:21 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByEric Itzkin

Learning to become a political activist

The debate on social media often ignores the changes Mahatma Gandhi went through in subsequent years when he sought to travel third class in trains

Gandhi recovering after being beaten up by a fellow Indian who felt that Gandhi had made a wrong compromise with South African officials, 1908(National Gandhi Museum)

editors pick

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 08:42 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByUma Dhupelia Mesthrie

Gandhi Jayanti: The importance of constructive work

Gandhi was unique among anti-colonial leaders for his attention to both politics and social transformation.

A 1964 photohraph of Gandhi taken by Margaret Bourke White shows him reading clippings with a charkha in the foreground.(Photo courtesy: National Gandhi museum)

opinion

Updated on Oct 01, 2020 06:49 PM IST

ByVenu Madhav Govindu

The Mahatma’s Bengal connection

Bengalis have a complicated response to MK Gandhi. Some hold him responsible for the Partition; others question his treatment of Subhas Chandra Bose.

Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan in February 1940.(National Gandhi Museum)

editors pick

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 09:43 PM IST

ByRudrangshu Mukherjee

Gandhi’s four visits to Assam

Travelogue: The Mahatma sought to learn the state’s history. He also imparted lessons on political maturity.

Even before Gandhi arrived in Assam, his call for Non Cooperation had created havoc for the European tea planters.(Photo: National Gandhi Museum)

india news

Updated on Sep 27, 2019 11:07 PM IST

ByArupjyoti Saikia

A lesson in swaraj from informal women workers

Inspired by Gandhi and his ideas of swaraj, thousands of women have created small, medium and large membership-based organisations.

Mahatma Gandhi with Sabarmati ashramites.(Stock photo)

india news

Updated on Oct 01, 2020 06:30 PM IST

ByMirai Chatterjee

Many Gandhis on our screens

One of the earliest films on Gandhi was an American feature documentary, titled Mahatma Gandhi: 20th Century Prophet, made in 1953.

film director, Richard Attenborough, (left) and actor, Ben Kingsley, who played the Mahatma, on set, 1982.

india news

Updated on Oct 01, 2020 06:53 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByRatnottama Sengupta

A young woman who played an aging Kasturba

Rohini Hattangadi played the character of Kasturba Gandhi in Richard Attenborough’s legendary 1982 film, Gandhi. Hattangadi revisits her memories of working in this iconic cinematic adaptation of his life.

Veteran actor Rohini Hattangadi at her residence in Mumbai.(Aalok Soni/HT Photo)

india news

Updated on Oct 01, 2020 07:06 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySonal Kalra

Champaran: India’s first Satyagraha

Mahatma Gandhi’s swaraj meant self-sufficiency at the village level, dependent largely on agriculture

An outside view of Bapudham Motihari Railway station, a historical place for the start of Satyagraha movement by Mahatma Gandhi, at Motihari, Bihar.(Photo by Sanchit Khanna / Hindustan Times)

editors pick

Updated on Oct 01, 2023 08:57 PM IST

ByNeyaz Farooquee

A novel form of political protest

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi widened the meaning of satyagraha to indicate an ethical attitude to the business of life. He even set the criteria for self evaluation for those who wished to follow this path. But the Mahatma’s true genius lay in the way he projected values like truth and non violence to the realm of mass politics.

Days after breaking the Salt law on April 6, 1930, Gandhi toured the villages around Dandi and addressed gatherings, speaking about the importance of satyagraha, and the need for civil disobedience.(Alamy stock photo)

india news

Updated on Sep 27, 2019 05:54 AM IST

ByVenu Madhav Govindu

Gandhi’s Bombay days in Mumbai

Bombay was where Gandhi made public speeches at mill compounds, where the supporters included elite families, shopkeepers, women and students.

Mahatma Gandhi at Juhu Beach, Bombay, May 1944 (Alamy Stock Photo)

india news

Updated on Sep 22, 2019 08:11 AM IST

ByRachel Lopez

A winning combination

An indefatigable Gandhi. A generous Bombay. Together, they created a synergy that changed the course of history, for it is here that the first nationwide Non Cooperation, and Quit India movements were launched.

Woman demonstrators during Quit India movement 1942(Alamy Stock Photo)

india news

Published on Sep 22, 2019 01:44 AM IST

ByUsha Thakkar and Sandhya Mehta

Copy

Whatsapp Twitter Facebook Linkedin

gandhi 150 years on news

Latest from gandhi 150 years on

Mahadev Desai joined Gandhi at 25 as his secretary and maintained diaries that offer a rare insight into the mind of the most secular leader India has seen

Formerly the house of noted industrialist Ghanshyam Das Birla, the home where MK Gandhi spent his last 144 days is now a museum

Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee spoke about her father’s stint in Hindustan Times, her grandparents, and the changing face of Delhi

When Gandhi inaugurated the Hindustan Times press in 1924, he knew it was time for a paper that reflected sentiments and the shared national agenda of Indians

Mahatma Gandhi 150th Birth Anniversary: MK Gandhi stood for social equality and harmony, and translated his vision into action. We must perceive, understand and manifest this in our lives.

Swami Anand, who persistently urged Gandhi to write his autobiography, introduced the readers to sociological insights about castes and communities

The Collected Works had all the known letters that Gandhi himself wrote; but virtually none of the letters that he received or responded to.

The state was his birthplace and the site of his experiments with truth. But it must analyse its points of divergence from the Father of the Nation

The 1931 Poona Pact shaped India’s Dalit political representation, and its implications are felt even in today’s parliamentary elections

The political consensus was that a newly independent India needed to rapidly industrialise. Instead, Mahatma Gandhi offered a radically different economic path

History hangs thick in the air of the Gandhi ashram, as the place is known. A print of a letter written by Gandhi in 1928 adorns the wall next to the bed

Bolstered by his experience of ashram life in South Africa, Gandhi first set up an ashram in the Kochrab area of Ahmedabad, which he later shifted to its present site on the banks of the river Sabarmati.

Gandhi established an ashram-school on land donated by a local priest, Baba Ram Narayan Das, which opened on November 20, 1917, a week after establishing a similar foundation school in Barharwa Lakhansen village 135 km away.

Gandhi was advised by his mentor Gopalkrishna Gokhale — a freedom fighter who belonged to the ilk of Moderates within the Congress — to tour India for a year

In 1936, Gandhi decided to personally live and work in villages. He wanted to redirect the educated class in India towards villages.

One of the ways in which the Dravidian social reformer challenged Brahmanical domination in politics, education and administration in Tamil Nadu was to agitate against caste surnames.

Shrestha was born in Kathmandu in 1896. From an early age, he showed signs of being a social reformer. He became one of the leaders of the Satyacharan Malami Guthi that worked to end outdated death related rites and rituals in Nepal.

Gandhi, an apostle of non violence, and Mao, an unapologetic votary of armed revolution or people’s war. Gandhi, an ascetic who renunciated all state power, and Mao, the Great Helmsman, who exercised all power for 26 years.

The motion called for the removal of the bronze statue at Gandhi Square — sculpted by Tinka Christopher, it depicts Gandhi as a young activist lawyer in his legal gown — and the renaming of the site after Sophie de Bruyn, a well-known anti-apartheid activist.

The debate on social media often ignores the changes Mahatma Gandhi went through in subsequent years when he sought to travel third class in trains

Gandhi was unique among anti-colonial leaders for his attention to both politics and social transformation.

Bengalis have a complicated response to MK Gandhi. Some hold him responsible for the Partition; others question his treatment of Subhas Chandra Bose.

Travelogue: The Mahatma sought to learn the state’s history. He also imparted lessons on political maturity.

Inspired by Gandhi and his ideas of swaraj, thousands of women have created small, medium and large membership-based organisations.

One of the earliest films on Gandhi was an American feature documentary, titled Mahatma Gandhi: 20th Century Prophet, made in 1953.

Rohini Hattangadi played the character of Kasturba Gandhi in Richard Attenborough’s legendary 1982 film, Gandhi. Hattangadi revisits her memories of working in this iconic cinematic adaptation of his life.

Mahatma Gandhi’s swaraj meant self-sufficiency at the village level, dependent largely on agriculture

Bombay was where Gandhi made public speeches at mill compounds, where the supporters included elite families, shopkeepers, women and students.

An indefatigable Gandhi. A generous Bombay. Together, they created a synergy that changed the course of history, for it is here that the first nationwide Non Cooperation, and Quit India movements were launched.

Join Hindustan Times

Create free account and unlock exciting features like