Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi is mentioned in 475 articles and has appeared on 3 TIME covers

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A thin Indian man with not much hair sits alone on a bare floor, wearing nothing but a loincloth and a pair of cheap spectacles, studying the clutch of handwritten notes in his hand. The black-and-white photograph takes up a full page in the newspaper. In the top left-hand corner of the page, in full ... Read More

Mahatma Gandhi Articles

Found: 475 Articles

SAINTS & HEROES: Of Truth and Shame

Feb. 9, 1948

For five hours, as Gandhi's body was pulled through the streets of Delhi, Vallabhbhai Patel crouched on the funeral cart, his head bowed; not once did he raise it. Alongside, barefoot in the dust, walked Jawaharlal Nehru. Said Nehru: "I have a sense of utter shame." The shame spread through the world with the news ...
INDIA: Pinch of Salt

Mar. 31, 1930

(See front cover*) Secretary Stimson is just two years older than Mahatma Gandhi, 61, and far more robust. Yet if Mr. Stimson had taken off all except a loin cloth when he landed at Southampton (TIME, Jan. 20, et seq.) and had walked barefoot the 80 miles to London, seeking thus to impress the World ...
Indira Gandhi: Death in the Garden

Nov. 12, 1984 | By William E. Smith

Indira Gandhi's assassination sparks a fearful round of sectarian violence
INDIA: Frogs in a Well

Aug. 17, 1942

A small boy in a tattered dhoti idly dawdled toe marks in the deep dust. Monsoon skies were slate-grey overhead. The oppressive heat gave added pungency to the smell of human filth in the Girgaun district of Bombay's slums. Shopkeepers moved listlessly; talk dribbled in the bazaars. Suddenly everything changed. Word sputtered from mouth to ...
Foreign News: Gandhi Ultimatum, Bargain

Oct. 5, 1931

To small, nut-brown Mahatma Gandhi came last week that slightly florid human mountain, the House of Commons. In effect a special meeting of the House convened around him, using for this purpose the historic Grand Committee Room. Barefoot and barelegged as usual, Mr. Gandhi pattered to the rostrum, squatted beneath his tentlike shawl, submitted him ...