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Gandhi's journals: How the Mahatma shaped a nation's ideas through Young India, Navjivan and Harijan

Many, before Gandhi, had employed the press to further their cause. Many did so after him. Few have been as effective as he was in the early 1920s when Young India and Navjivan were at their zenith

Edtech for the future: Why having content for synchronous and asynchronous classes is crucial

The edtech market reserves the potential for exponential growth and tapping on its value can be extremely helpful for equitable, quality and inclusive education

How India House became a hub of revolution ahead of India's Independence

Formally inaugurated by Henry Hyndman of the Social Democratic Federation, India House was ostensibly merely a boarding house for Indian students

Gandhi's protest, ejection from train in South Africa in 1893 commemorated by organisations across world

Gandhi's years in South Africa shaped his philosophy, especially as it relates to peace and non-violence, the chairman of the Pietermaritzburg Gandhi Memorial Committee said.

Komagata Maru: The voyage that exposed the British Empire for what it was — a glorified profit-seeking operation

Less than two decades after the legendary Battle of Saragarhi, the much-feted soldiers of the British Empire came up against it in the Komagata Maru incident of 1914.

73 years after Independence, examining Mumbai's role in the Indian freedom struggle

The earliest expression of political ideas came from the Indian owned newspapers published in the city of Mumbai in the early 1830s.

On 73rd Independence Day, examining Mahatma Gandhi's legacy and why his position as 'Father of the Nation' is secure

Why has history been so kind to Gandhi, a man whose very public life and thousands of letters, editorials, essays and utterances expose him to easy mockery, particularly by a new India whose political elite has always regarded him with contempt? How is it that, through all the hate and resentment unleashed by India’s current political climate, the man who stands on the opposite pole continues to smile down at us in fatherly benevolence?

Gandhi's diet offers food for thought, as historian Nico Slate highlights in a new book on the Mahatma

His interest in raw food is one of many examples in which Gandhi saw dietary change as a path toward larger social and political transformation, says historian Nico Slate

National Archives releases rare footage depicting immersion of Mahatma Gandhi's ashes at Jabalpur in 1948

The footage depicting the immersion of Gandhi's ashes in Jabalpur was released by the National Cultural Audiovisual Archives, and can be viewed in its entirety here.

Gandhi and self-transformation: The Mahatma's life is an example of philosophy as the art of living

Mahatma Gandhi is arguably the only individual, after the Buddha, who provides a measure of man’s potential to cultivate a rich inner life and attain self-transformation