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                  Mahatma Gandhi

   October 2, 1869 was a glorious day for a Hindu Modh family in Porbandar, Gujarat, India. Parents Karamchand Gandhi and his fourth wife brought into this world possibly one of the greatest men to live in modern times. This man was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or Mahatma Gandhi, as he would become more popularily known.

Bapu, as he was called in many Indian languages, became one the most important leaders, in India's struggle for freedom and independence from the oppressive British Empire's rule. This fight, through his pioneering non-violent organized civil disobedience called, Satyagraha, would be inspiration for future civil rights movements world-wide. As leader of the Indian National Congress, he campaigned for the poor, womens' rights, and for an end to the caste/untouchables system.

Mahatma Gandhi, lived very much according to the Hindu teachings he was raised around, but only picked up later in life while at college in England. He made his own clothes, ate a vegetarian diet, fasted often to cleanse his spirit and as a means of civil protest. He even organized a completely self-sufficient ashram (a sort of Hindu monastery). Bapu's life, teachings, and example would become inspiration to such notable freedom fighters as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Steven Biko, and Aung San Suu Kyi. Gandhi's birthday is now also an Indian national holiday titled, Gandhi Jayanti.

January 30, 1948 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated in Birla House, New Delhi by a radical with ties to extremist Hindu Mahasabha.