Gandhi’s birthday being marked at LU Friday

To wish all a Happy Gandhi Jayanti.

Gandhi, besides standing for liberty and freedom, also championed the cause of cleanliness, and Prime Minister’s “Clean India” campaign which completed one year today, is a tribute to his values. He was first employed as nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa. “We remain committed to them not because it is our past, but because it is also our future”, Mukherjee said. On this day Alcohol and related consumable products are not sold across the retail outlet across India.

“India’s diplomacy is focussed today on a broad range of global issues that serve the broader interests of humanity”, he said adding that through India’s humanitarian operations in Yemen and Nepal, the country helped those in distress irrespective of nationality. “Hence the necessity for tolerance, which does not mean indifference towards one’s own Faith, but a more intelligent and pure love for it”. He also reminded the audience of what Gandhi called “Seven Social Sins” which included wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice and politics without principles. Thus, he rose into prominence among the Muslim community as well.

They were both Indian National Congress leaders, founding fathers and freedom fighters. Or we, the people of this nation, do.

This is the place from where Mahatma Gandhi launched a satyagraha in March 1919 against the Rowlatt Act that allowed certain political cases to be tried without juries and permitted suspects to be interred without a trial. He marched 388 kilometers along with thousands of his followers from Ahmedabad to Dandi, Gujarat walking and made salt himself.

In India, there are certain days in the year which are set aside as Dry Days. Although born in higher caste he supported the Dalit rights. His life has always been an inspiration and various parts of his life have been immortalized by veteran filmmakers.

A unique exhibition showcasing a captivating selection of caricatures by prominent Egyptian artists on the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi will be held here from next week, coinciding with his birth anniversary which is celebrated as “International Day of Non-Violence”.

Mahatma Gandhi greets an aged Muslim peasant during his tour of Noakhali, undertaken to bring about Hindi-Muslim unity.