Mohandas K. Gandhi, a young Indian lawyer working in South Africa, defies racial segregation laws on a South African train and is forcibly removed at Pietermaritzburg, in what would have major effects on the people of India.

Gandhi, an Indian-born English-educated lawyer, arrived in South Africa in the early months of 1893 to begin a one-year legal practise. He experienced prejudice and South African regulations that limited the rights of Indian employees after settling in Natal. 

Gandhi subsequently remembered one of these instances, in which he was ejected from a first-class train compartment, as his 'moment of truth.'

Gandhi remains a hero. In 1947, he contributed to India's independence from British colonial authority. But some of his practises and ideas are coming under new examination as the world prepares to celebrate what would have been his 150th birthday on Wednesday.

The Racism Of Gandhi.

A Gandhi statue was taken down from a Ghanaian university campus last year. The hashtag #GandhiMustFall is being used by activists in Malawi and there. Because of his early writings, they are furious.

Gandhi stated in a letter from South Africa in 1903 that white people should be 'the predominating race' there. He added that black people 'live like animals, are problematic, and are exceedingly nasty.'

His Experiments With Celibacy.

Gandhi supported political women. He was preoccupied with his own celibacy, though. He shared a naked bed with his grandniece in her late teens when he was in his late 70s and died at age 78. He claimed he wanted to put his ability to resist having sex to the test.

Most people today would categorise that as abuse. Some doubt the young woman's ability to consent to a man who was so revered and so much more powerful than she was while she was still a minor.

Conclusion.

British director Richard Attenborough sought India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, for advice on how to portray his late colleague in 1962 as he started doing research for the 1982 film about Gandhi. 

Gandhi was 'a magnificent man, but he had his foibles, his moods, and his failings,' Nehru famously retorted. He pleaded with Attenborough not to glorify Gandhi. He was 'far too human,' according to Nehru.

Gandhi is nonetheless revered in India as a saint and the country's founding father. He was born on October 2, which is a federal holiday. India's currency features Gandhi's image. In government buildings, his portrait is framed.

There is a Gandhi memorial in almost every significant city in the nation. Tourists can tread the stone path where Gandhi took his final steps at the garden in New Delhi where he was killed in 1948, just months after India gained independence from Britain.

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