Mahatma Gandhi, one of the most known brahmacharis, besides being an adherent of simple living and nonresistance, also devoted himself to creating what he believed to be a perfect diet.

He remains the only Urdu Journalist to Interview late Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi besides a close friend late Sanjay Gandhi, Dhirendra Brahmachari and several cabinet Ministers.

Baba and Gandhi had three meetings onboard, including one that lasted for three hours.

The British press highlighted these meetings, but an aide to Gandhi said, " You may say emphatically that Gandhi never asked Meher Baba for help or for spiritual or other advice.

However Jayakar considers his message in meetings with Indira Gandhi as a possible influence in the lifting of certain emergency measures Mrs. Gandhi had imposed during periods of political turmoil.

When Mahatma Gandhi visits Malgudi, the meetings and speeches are held right on the banks of river Sarayu.

They aimed at blowing up toilets in government offices and cause explosions near the venue of public meetings to be addressed by Indira Gandhi.

After making salt at Dandi, Gandhi continued southward along the coast, producing salt and addressing meetings on the way.

Gandhi prepared the worldwide media for the march by issuing regular statements from Sabarmati, at his regular prayer meetings and through direct contact with the press.

There he met, briefly, Mahatma Gandhi ( the first of many meetings ), and became friends with Rabindranath Tagore and Amy Carmichael, founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship.

" He had several meetings over the years with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, whom he greatly respected saying: " the sphere of his usefulness will be sainthood, and a compelling one at that.

" The Two Mahatmas "— as Sarojini Naidu described Gandhi and Irwin — had eight meetings that totaled 24 hours.

In high school, Yusuf attended meetings by former stalwarts of Gandhi, and along with Ismail Cachalia and other schoolmates, raised funds and awareness for the All India National Congress.

* 1919 – Gandhi organizes a day of " prayer and fasting " in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre by the British.

Gandhi exhorted Indian men and women, rich or poor, to spend time each day spinning khadi in support of the independence movement.

Benn's contact with leading politicians of the day dates back to his earliest years ; he met Ramsay MacDonald when he was five, David Lloyd George when he was 12 and Mahatma Gandhi in 1931, while his father was Secretary of State for India.

In July 2012, Union Law Minister, Salman Khurshid stated that Rahul Gandhi should provide a " new ideology " to meet the present day challenges, the Congress party was facing.

A day after the 2011 Mumbai bombings, Gandhi declared: " It is very difficult to stop every single terrorist attack.

Gandhi chose April 6 to launch the mass breaking of the salt laws for a symbolic reason — it was the first day of " National Week ", begun in 1919 when Gandhi conceived of the national hartal ( strike ) against the Rowlatt Act.

The day before Operation Blue Star, he met with Gandhi for more than an hour, but she omitted even sharing a word about her plan.

In his Quit India speech that day at Gowalia Tank, Bombay, Gandhi told Indians to follow non-violent civil disobedience.

He is known to have issued the proclamation of emergency by signing the papers at midnight after a meeting with Indira Gandhi the same day.

TIDEL Park is located on the six-lane Rajiv Gandhi Salai in Taramani opposite to the Thiruvanmiyur MRTS Railway Station and close to the Rajiv Gandhi Salai – Thiruvanmiyur West Avenue Junction, a high-density traffic junction used by about 30, 000 vehicles a day.

The next day he left office and was replaced by West Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi.

The adaptation directed by Manilal Joshi in 1924 was very controversial in its day: Mahatma Gandhi railed against it for excessive sex and violence.

Gandhi did not disagree with Nehru's move, but felt that if he resigned, his popularity with Indians would cease to stifle the party's membership.

Cripps ’ s mission failed as Gandhi would accept nothing less than independence.

The issue was resolved during the premiership of Lal Bahadur Shastri, who under great pressure from Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, was made to give assurances that English would continue to be used as the official language as long the non-Hindi speaking states wanted.

Fearing that the movement was about to take a turn towards violence, and convinced that this would be the undoing of all his work, Gandhi called off the campaign of mass civil disobedience.

In 1942, although still committed in his efforts to " launch a non-violent movement ", Gandhi clarified that the movement would not be stopped by individual acts of violence, saying that the " ordered anarchy " of " the present system of administration " was " worse than real anarchy.

Nixon met with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and did not believe her assertion that she would not invade Pakistan ; he did not trust her and once referred to her as an " old witch ".

In particular, it is known that Gandhi would often quote Shelley's Masque of Anarchy to vast audiences during the campaign for a free India.

Upon hearing of Mohandas Gandhi, he joked to Mavlankar that Gandhi would " ask you if you know how to sift pebbles from wheat.

Meeting Gandhi a month later at the Gujarat Political Conference in Godhra, Patel became the secretary of the Gujarat Sabha — a public body which would become the Gujarati arm of the Indian National Congress — at Gandhi's encouragement.

Gandhi criticised the 16 May proposal as being inherently divisive, but Patel, realising that rejecting the proposal would mean that only the League would be invited to form a government, lobbied the Congress Working Committee hard to give its assent to the 16 May proposal.

Among the keynote speakers was leading liberal academic, Dr Abdulla Al Madani, who emphasised Gandhi ’ s moral vision: " Had he resorted to kidnapping, suicide-bombings, beheadings, or other barbarian means, his memory would not have remained rooted in the world's conscience.

Gandhi won that award, but its director, Richard Attenborough, declared, " I was certain that not only would E. T.

Addressing the forum at its concluding session, he praised the WSF for demanding freedom in its most comprehensive form, and was happy that people had assembled under an important idea, rather than for narrow political ends ; after reflecting on corporations displacing governments in various countries, and on how Mahatma Gandhi had fought British colonisers non-violently with the strength of the masses, he predicted that vocal masses the world over would successfully fight by non-violent means the capturing of the world's resources by a few corporations in the name of globalisation.

To calm the situation, Shastri took the advice of Indira Gandhi and gave assurances that English would continue to be used as the official language as long the non-Hindi speaking states wanted.

Despite his deep respect for Gokhale, however, Gandhi would reject Gokhale's faith in western institutions as a means of achieving political reform and ultimately chose not to become a member of Gokhale's Servants of India Society.

He thought it was plausible that the Klingon leader who turned soft towards the enemy would be killed like similar peacemakers throughout history: Anwar El Sadat, Gandhi, and Abraham Lincoln.

He said socialism would only socialise poverty, and he described Gandhi as a masochist reactionary who worshipped poverty.

On 3 April 2011, it was announced that the new autonomous Jubaland administration would be referred to as Azania and would be led as President by Mohamed Abdi Mohamed ( Gandhi ), the former national Minister of Defense.

It was also agreed that Gandhi would join the Second Round Table Conference as the sole representative of the Congress.

In March 2004, Gandhi announced his entry into politics by announcing that he would contest the May 2004 elections, standing for his father's former constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha, India's lower house of Parliament.

It generated speculation that the presence of a young member of India's most famous political family would reinvigorate the Congress party's political fortunes among India's youthful population In his first interview with foreign media, Gandhi portrayed himself as a uniter of the country and condemned " divisive " politics in India, saying that he would try to reduce caste and religious tensions.