At the height of the khadi movement, when Mahatma Gandhi exhorted everyone to boycott foreign clothes, Kasturba, his wife, complained that she found it difficult to wear a khadi sari and cook as ...

People used to call him by various names as Bapu, Gandhiji, Mahatma Gandhi. He was Jain / Hindu as religion. He was known as a prominent figure of Indian Independence movement, propounding the ...

Better known as the Mahatma, or great soul ... After the first volume of my Gandhi biography came out in 2013, I was in a New York hotel promoting it. The book was on my table and someone from ...

A new biography of Mohandas Gandhi has sparked outrage in India because it depicts the Mahatma as a racist and a bisexual. Joseph Lelyveld's Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India ...

A solemn commemoration at Pietermaritzburg railway station marked 132 years since Mahatma Gandhi's removal from a train, an ...

That was too much for people who venerate Gandhi as the Mahatma, who pioneered nonviolent protest and led India to independence from the British Empire. The proposed ban has also prompted many ...

Gandhi, who led India to independence and is a universal symbol of peaceful resistance, had another side -- a more human one. In a biography that hit stores this week -- "Great Soul: Mahatma ...