Did you know about Mahatma Gandhi?

Ok I would like to share some good facts for the first time....but I will also include other facts :D ---The great Scientist Albert Einstein once said about Gandhi : Generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one as this (Gandhi) walked the earth in flesh and blood. He also once said, ” I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

---Gandhi, a practitioner of non-violence and truth, advocated that others follow the principles. He lived modestly and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn he had hand spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as means of both self-purification and social protest.

Mahatma Gandhi experimented with diets to see how cheaply he could live and remain healthy. He started living principally on fruit and goats’ milk and olive oil. ---During the freedom struggle, he wore nothing but a loin cloth.

---At the age of 36, whilst married, Gandhi decided to become celibate in order to achieve a state of enlightenment . As he got older, he became more and more fascinated with sex to the point that, second only to non-violence, it was the subject he most talked about. In order to “perfect” his celibate state, Gandhi would sleep naked with young naked women.

One of the women was the 16 year old wife of his grand-nephew Kanu Gandhi. When he wanted to share his bed with his 19 year old grandniece Manu Gandhi, he wrote to her father and told him that they were sharing a bed so that he could “correct her sleeping posture”. When his stenographer R.

P. Parasuram found him sleeping naked with Manu, he resigned in disgust. Now this will make you angry :P ---Gandhi was also a prolific writer.

For decades he edited several newspapers including Harijan in Gujarati, Hindi and English, Indian Opinion while in South Africa and, Young India, in English, and Navajivan, a Gujarati monthly. He also wrote a few books including his autobiography, An Autobiography or My Experiments with Truth. ---When Gandhi was a student he was asked by his teacher to copy a word from the co student’s book during a test.

It happened in the presence of Inspector of schools. But Gandhi was ready to take the punishment for not knowing the word rather than copying it. This incident inspires every one of us to be honest in our deeds.

The word was "kettle." Gandhi's friends were able to spell the word properly, but Gandhi didn't know how. The inspector began going around to check each student's paper.

While the inspector moved from student to student, the teacher saw that Gandhi's spelling was wrong, so he touched Gandhi's leg with his foot to get his attention. With his eyes he urged Gandhi to look at someone else's paper. But Gandhi didn't want to copy from anyone.

When the inspector came to Gandhi, he said, "Here's a mistake. This boy doesn't know how to spell 'kettle.' He has written it 'ketle'." The inspector wasn't angry, but he was disappointed that Gandhi didn't know the answer.

The teacher was very angry with Gandhi. I told you to look at your friend's paper, but you wouldn't listen to me. You're a disgrace to my class."

Gandhi said, "I may be a disgrace, but I can't tell a lie.

In 1920 an alliance was made between Khilafat leaders and the Indian National Congress, the largest political party in India and of the nationalist movement. Congress leader Mohandas Gandhi and the Khilafat leaders promised to work and fight together for the causes of Khilafat and Swaraj. Seeking to increase pressure on the British, the Khilafatists became a major part of the Non-cooperation movement — a nationwide campaign of mass, peaceful civil disobedience.

The support of the Khilafatists helped Gandhi and the Congress ensure Hindu-Muslim unity during the struggle. Khilafat leaders such as Dr. Ansari, Maulana Azad and Hakim Ajmal Khan also grew personally close to Gandhi. These leaders founded the Jamia Millia Islamia in 1920 to promote independent education and social rejuvenation for Muslims.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.