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Mahatma Gandhi
Maria

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NAME: Mara Alexandra Ramrez Torres

2015-2016

Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi was probably one of the most notable characters during
Twentieth Century. He was born on October 2 in 1989 in Porbandar-India and died on
January 30 in 1948 in Indian Union. He was a thinker, lawyer and politician. He
promoted and defensed the fidelity to the dictates of awareness, inciting the civil
disobedience, an innovative technique for protesting. His most important legacy was
probably his no violence protest, giving him the chance of winning the Nobel Prize of
Peace five times, but without winning it.
He belonged to a commercial family. His mother was a big influence in his
childhood, by teaching him that he shouldnt hurt any living beings. He wasnt a
brilliant student while living in India. He found a chance to study laws in England.
When he ended his studies, he returned to India where he couldnt get success as
lawyer. Some years later he got a job in South Africa, where he started to participate in
protests for the sake of Indian people living in that country. In those times, he started
to study about a lot of things about philosophy and religion.
He suffered a lot as a consequence of his protests together his wife. However,
his doctrines, acquired mainly through a lot of books from Tolstoi, and Indian author,
helped a lot. When he returned to India, he already had changed his life style adopting
new nutrition and health culture. He was very charismatic. A lot of people was
enchanted by his life style and they used to respect him in a way that let him start the
pacific protest that freed India some years later. Also, along with his doctrine about
nutrition, there was his idea of never going to doctors.
In 1944 his wife died in jail, hurting him extremely. However in 1947 India got
its liberty. This moment was lived by him like any other moment in his life. In January
of 1948, while going to a reunion, he was killed by Nathuram Godse. The assassin was
incited by the oposition, but they werent punished by Indian Justice. Since that,
Gandhi has been considered one of the most relevant figures of the spirituality for
million people around the world, but there is also people who consider he had a lot of
controversy around his practices and thinking way.
As many others, he committed several errors, however his hits were more than
those failures and the balance of his legacy is positive. Over all the things he did, the
no violence, that was the key of his success, has inspired several campaigns around the
world, increasing his legacy and giving to the future generations the proof that
demonstrates the world can solve its problems by talking and not by fighting and that
there is not room for colonies neither countries where people dont have the same
rights.

Mahatma Gandhi