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समाचार-सार
Mahatma Gandhi’s Birth Anniversary
Why India and the World Need Gandhi
The great leader envisioned a world where every citizen has dignity and prosperity
NARENDRA MODI
pon reaching India in 1959, the Rev. Dr. that nonviolent resistance could be extended
Martin Luther King Jr. remarked, “To other there. We recall that South Africa has had bus
Ucountries I may go as a tourist, but to India boycotts also.” Nelson Mandela referred to
I come as a pilgrim”. He added, “Perhaps, above Gandhi as “the Sacred Warrior” and wrote, “His
all, India is the land where the techniques of strategy of non cooperation, his assertion that
nonviolent social change were developed that we can be dominated only if we cooperate with
my people have used in Montgomery, Alabama, our dominators, and his nonviolent resistance
and elsewhere throughout the American inspired anticolonial and antiracist movements
South. We have found them to be effective and internationally in our century.”
sustaining — they work!” For Mr. Mandela, Gandhi was Indian and
The guiding light whose inspiration got Dr. South African. Gandhi would have approved.
King to India was Mohandas Karamchand He had the unique ability to become a bridge
Gandhi, the Mahatma, the Great Soul. Gandhi Ji, between some of the greatest contradictions in
or Bapu, continues to give courage to millions human society.
globally. In 1925, Gandhi wrote in “Young India”: “It is
Gandhian methods of resistance ignited a impossible for one to be internationalist without
spirit of hope among several African nations. Dr. being a nationalist. Internationalism is possible
King remarked: “When I was visiting in Ghana, only when nationalism becomes a fact, i.e.,
West Africa, Prime Minister Nkrumah told me when peoples belonging to different countries
that he had read the works of Gandhi and felt have organised themselves and are able to act
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