Subhashree ramachandran biography of mahatma gandhi

The Essence of Gandhi

By G. Ramachandran

In this article the author gives us an insight about how Gandhi arrived at the technique of Satyagraha.

Being a many-sided personality his experiences in South Africa became his laboratory where he conducted experiments for the betterment of down trodden, subjugated human beings. Through his constant experimentation he realized that nonviolence was the strongest weapon of the subjugated masses and taught them to use it.

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He was able to induce courage and strength in the weakest of the weak and remorse in the hearts of the cruelest of the cruel. Such were his discipline and aspirations and his belief that good exists in all humans, one only has to awaken that good within.

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Gandhi was a many-sided personality.

The outward simplicity of his life and his single-minded devotion to nonviolence cloaked innumerable deep currents of ideas, disciplines, loyalties and aspirations. He was at once saint and