Curated playlist
Gandhians
- Mahatma GandhiOn the day India won freedom, Gandhi refused to celebrate. He fasted and spun cloth in Calcutta, pleading for peace.
- Martin Luther King Jr.Martin Luther King Jr. died at the age of 39, yet his autopsy showed the heart of a 60 year old, according to his biographer Taylor Branch. Branch attributed the damage to stress. The causes were many. King was jailed repeatedly, attacked…
- Manilal GandhiManilal Gandhi edited a weekly newspaper in Durban for thirty-six years. He was Mohandas Gandhi's son.
- Mahadev DesaiMahadev Desai kept a daily diary for twenty-five years as Gandhi's secretary. It fills twenty-two volumes.
- Sharda MehtaIn 1901, Sharda Mehta became one of the first two women with a university degree in what is now Gujarat.
- Devdas GandhiDevdas Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's youngest son, had to wait five years to marry Lakshmi. They wed in 1933.
- Kasturba GandhiKasturba Gandhi led fellow prisoners in prayer during her 1913 jail term in South Africa.
- Cesar ChavezCesar Chavez was born Cesario Estrada Chavez on the 31st of March 1927 and died on the 23rd of April 1993. Many Mexican Americans came to speak of him as a "folk saint." California farm owners saw something else entirely, a communist…
- Vallabhbhai PatelVallabhbhai Patel had to persuade more than 565 princely states to join India.
- Tushar GandhiTushar Gandhi agreed to let a credit card ad use his great-grandfather's image. Outcry made him cancel it.
- Hermann KallenbachArchitect Hermann Kallenbach gave Gandhi a 1,100-acre farm near Johannesburg. He named it Tolstoy Farm.
- MirabehnMirabehn warned of Himalayan forest loss decades before the Chipko Movement. The Forest Department ignored her.
- Sarojini NaiduSarojini Naidu led India's Salt March campaign after Gandhi was arrested. She had persuaded him to let women march.