Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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12-8-10 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Mohandas Gandhi was a peace maker from India. He influenced others to be strong influencers on world peace. Gandhi was a political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. The nonviolence concept helped India to gain independence, and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He is officially honored in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence. Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948 by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu Nationalist. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven from yarn that he had spun by hand himself. He ate simple vegetarian food, experimented for a time with a fruitarian diet, and undertook long fasts as a means of both self-purification and social protest. He was a leader during World War 1. In April 1918, during the latter part of World War I, the Viceroy invited Gandhi to a War Conference in Delhi Perhaps to show his support for the Empire and help his case for India's independence, where he agreed to the support. Gandhi had several pace making skills and a list of ideas titled to create world peace. His first belief was giving the word of truth, Gandhi dedicated his life to the wider purpose of discovering the truth. He tried to achieve this by learning from his own mistakes and conducting experiments on himself. He called his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Gandhi stated that the most important battle to fight was overcoming his own demons, fears, and insecurities. Gandhi summarized his beliefs first when he said "God is Truth". He would later change this statement to "Truth is God". Thus, Satya (Truth) in Gandhi's philosophy is

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