Statue of Gandhi, Embassy Row, in front of Indian Embassy
MAHATMA GANDHI
1869 – 1948
"MY LIFE IS MY MESSAGE"
Gandhi led India to freedom from british rule in 1947.
he is hailed as the father of the nation.
crusader for human rights and liberty, thinker, writer
reformer, apostle of truth and non-violence (ahimsa),
Gandhi succeeded in uniting millions of people of all faiths
across india in a mass movement of civil disobedience.
on Gandhi's seventieth birthday, Albert Einstein wrote,
"generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one
as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth".
Photo 18, Nov 2011
