Sentence examples for gandhi from inspiring English sources
proper noun
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement, and proponent of nonviolence.
He caused a stir mostly because it is so rare to hear the scion of the Gandhi family say anything that is not a trite generalisation.Mr Gandhi's welcome action has awkward consequences for Congress.
Arundhati Roy, the Booker prize-winning author, recently accused Mahatma Gandhi, India's revered independence leader, of discrimination and called for institutions bearing his name to be renamed because of his attitude to caste.
The young MK Gandhi enjoyed his cricket and is on record as having watched a game between the town of Rajkot (Indians) and the local military cantonment (British) while a schoolboy in the late 1880s.
After the lessons, Parvinder would stick around to engage me in broken English conversations about Indian history, teaching me about the country's founding fathers – Ambedkar, Nehru, Gandhi – and desperately working to improve his speaking skills.
If Tupac is hip-hop's Gandhi, the peeling Bob Marley poster on the wall of a generation of students, Biggie was the single greatest talent hip-hop ever produced: fat, slovenly, proud of eating sardines from a can, rapping about sexual inadequacies, and then – once he'd made it – about the fake adulation that came with wealth and power.
Satyarthi, the Nobel committee said, had maintained the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi and headed various forms of peaceful protests.
'This is a Gandhi-esque campaign,' he explains to me when I call him.
Then he moved on to Brook Lapping Productions where he produced The World at War, Nixon, The Windsors, The Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty and Kennedy, for which he won a second Guild of TV Producers award and an Emmy for best script of the year.
A quarter of a century later India is awaiting a possible fifth Nehru-Gandhi ruler (Rajiv's son Rahul), its corruption scams are measured in billions of dollars and the insurgency in Kashmir has claimed over 50,000 lives.
Almost half of India's 1.2 billion people were not even born in 1989, when Rajiv Gandhi, the third Nehru-Gandhi ruler, lost an election dominated by a $10m arms scam and separatist protests in Kashmir turned violent.
As the city presses upon the neighbouring Sanjay Gandhi National Park, leopards have begun entering settlements and have sometimes killed squatting humans, especially children, after mistaking them for prey.
