Mahatma gandhi’s birthplace

MK Gandhi was an influential figure of the 20th century and a peerless influence on India. Before him, mass politics, civil disobedience, and popular mobilisation, were largely unknown. He singularly created a rousing new awakening and propagated reasoned anti-imperialist consciousness whose reverberations were felt from Gymkhanas of Delhi, to the drawing rooms of Malabar Hills, […]

Porbandar on India’s western coastline reflects the calm and peaceful demeanour that its greatest son Mahatma Gandhi wears in a lifesize portrait hanging in Kirti Mandir, his birthplace-turned-museum. But only a few follow Bapu’s teachings now. People in Porbandar are sympathetic towards Congress which claims to follow Mahatma’s principles of truth and non-violence, but they […]