Curated playlist
Mahatma Gandhi
- Mahatma GandhiOn the day India won freedom, Gandhi refused to celebrate. He fasted and spun cloth in Calcutta, pleading for peace.
- Gandhi–Irwin PactThe Gandhi-Irwin Pact freed over 90,000 political prisoners but could not save Bhagat Singh.
- Kaba Gandhi No DeloMahatma Gandhi was twelve when his family moved into Kaba Gandhi No Delo, a house in Rajkot.
- Tolstoy FarmTolstoy Farm had no servants, so residents did every task, from cooking to scavenging. Gandhi founded it in 1910.
- Mahadev DesaiMahadev Desai kept a daily diary for twenty-five years as Gandhi's secretary. It fills twenty-two volumes.
- Poona PactIn September 1932, Gandhi began a fast unto death in an Indian jail. It pushed Ambedkar into the Poona Pact.
- International Day of Non-ViolenceThe International Day of Non-Violence began with a Hindi teacher in Paris.
- Hind Swaraj or Indian Home RuleGandhi wrote the book Hind Swaraj on a ship, and Britain banned it within a year. He wrote it in Gujarati in 1909.
- Indian Ambulance CorpsGandhi returned his Boer War medals after the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Troops fired on an unarmed crowd.
- Indian OpinionGandhi said satyagraha would have been impossible without the newspaper Indian Opinion.
- Natal Indian CongressFour Natal Indian Congress members fled arrest in 1984 by hiding in the British consulate in Durban.
- Assassination of Mahatma GandhiGandhi's killer had been freed twice before because Gandhi refused to press charges. Nathuram Godse shot him in 1948.
- V. A. SundaramIn 1931 Gandhi's ambassador V. A. Sundaram met Albert Einstein in Caputh, a village outside Berlin.
- Gandhi capMany people on stage behind Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 wore Gandhi caps.
- Shrimad RajchandraAt seven, Shrimad Rajchandra watched a cremation from a tree and remembered life before birth.
- Young IndiaYoung India was a book before Gandhi made it a journal. Lala Lajpat Rai wrote it in 1916 for the wider world.