Tag: Gandhi

Pooja Shakun Pandey was filmed shooting the effigy at an event by a far-right Hindu group on the 71st anniversary of Gandhi's death.

She later garlanded the statue of Nathuram Godse, the assassin who had taken the life of Gandhi in Delhi on January 30, 1948.

Over 3,000 people have signed a petition opposing a planned statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Malawi's commercial capital Blantyre.

NEW DELHI: A few months after picture of Pakistan's Father of the Nation Muhammad Ali Jinnah was put on display at the India’s Aligarh...

NEW YORK: E-retail giant Amazon once again sparked fury among the Indian after the website displayed flip-flops featuring the face of India's independence leader...

LONDON: A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi is to be unveiled on Saturday at the heart of the British establishment which once loathed him for his campaign against imperial rule.

TURIN: Italian writer Erri de Luca invoked Gandhi on Wednesday as he began his trial defence against charges of inciting criminal damage to a controversial high-speed rail link through the Alps.

LONDON: British actor and film director Richard Attenborough died on Sunday at the age of 90, the BBC reported, citing his son.

Civil disobedience is one of the many ways people have rebelled against what they deem to be unfair laws. It has been used in many nonviolent resistance movements in India (Gandhi's campaigns for independence from the British Empire), in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution and in East Germany to oust their communist governments.