Curated category
Gandhians
- Mahatma GandhiAt 5:17 p.m. on the 30th of January 1948, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was walking through the garden of Birla House in Delhi, his grandnieces beside him, on…
- Manilal GandhiManilal Mohandas Gandhi was born on the 28th of October 1892 in Rajkot, British India, the second of four sons in one of the most consequential families of…
- Mahadev DesaiMahadev Haribhai Desai spent the last morning of his life exactly where he had spent so much of the previous twenty-five years: beside Mahatma Gandhi, inside…
- Sharda MehtaSharda Mehta entered the world on the 26th of June 1882 in Ahmedabad. Her father Gopilal Manilal Dhruva served as a judicial officer.
- Devdas GandhiDevdas Mohandas Gandhi was born on the 22nd of May 1900 in the Colony of Natal, far from the subcontinent his father would one day help liberate.
- Kasturba GandhiKasturba Gokuldas Kapadia entered the world on the 11th of April 1869 in the coastal town of Porbandar. Her family belonged to the Modh Bania caste, a group…
- Vallabhbhai PatelVallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was born on the 31st of October 1875 in Nadiad, Gujarat, and he died on the 15th of December 1950 in Bombay.
- Tushar GandhiTushar Arun Gandhi carries a name that opens doors and closes them in equal measure. Born on the 17th of January 1960 in Shegaon, Maharashtra, he is the…
- Hermann KallenbachHermann Kallenbach arrived in Johannesburg in 1896 as a young Lithuanian-born architect joining his uncles, with no particular reason to become one of…
- MirabehnMirabehn, born Madeleine Slade on the 22nd of November 1892, closed a book one day and decided her life was no longer her own.
- Sarojini NaiduSarojini Naidu was born on the 13th of February 1879 in Hyderabad, into a family that seemed to run on creative and political fire.