Mohandas Gandhi

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The Mahatma, the Great Soul, endures in the best part of our minds, where our ideals are kept: the embodiment of human rights and the creed of nonviolence. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is something else, an eccentric of complex, contradictory and exhausting character most of us hardly know. It is fashionable at this fin de siècle to use the man to tear down the hero, to expose human pathologies at the expense of larger-than-life achievements. No myth raking can rob Gandhi of his moral force or diminish the remarkable importance of this scrawny little man. For the 20th century — and surely for the ones to follow — it is the towering myth of the Mahatma that matters.
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Web Resources
Mahatma Gandhi Album
A detailed site offering everything from quotes and cartoons to book excerpts and an Ask Gandhi section.

GandhiServe
This nonprofit research center offers an unparalleled selection of materials on Gandhi — from audio clips to writings — for both scholars and the general public, plus information on how to find out more. A fee is charged for access to some items.

The Mahatma Gandhi Website
Run by the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, this well-organized site offers a comprehensive overview of Gandhi's life and philosophy, with video clips, a testimonial page and announcements of upcoming Mahatma events.

Gandhi Virtual Ashram
Multimedia, photos, quotes, timelines and a mailing list in this online shrine to the Mahatma

Mahatma Gandhi: The Complete Information
Read Gandhi's books online, join a student project or check out Gandhi's favorite hymn

M. K. Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence
Collection of quotes and photos plus an interview with Gandhi's grandson, Arun, founder of this nonprofit organization



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