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Mahatma Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India. His ideas and strategies of nonviolent civil disobedience led to India ’s independence. This is a rare actual voice recording of Mahatma Gandhi from 1931 where he speaks on spiritual topics, especially Hinduism. Recording obtained and published by Rick Sheridan.
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Recalling his friendship and conversations with the late Indian leader, William Shirer presents a portrait of Gandhi that spotlights his frailties as well as his accomplishments.
As a young foreign correspondent, William Shirer reported briefly on Gandhi-but the year was 1931, when India's struggle for independence peaked and Gandhi scored perhaps his greatest political success. The year before, he had led a 200-mile march to the sea to pick up...
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi fue un abogado, pensador y político indio. Recibió de Tagore el nombre honorífico de Mahatma. Desde 1918 estuvo abiertamente al frente del movimiento nacionalista indio. Instauró métodos de lucha social novedosos como la huelga de hambre, y en sus programas rechazaba la lucha armada y predicaba la Áhimsa como medio para resistir al dominio británico.
La biografía de un hombre que lucho incansablemente por la paz...
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Mаhаtmа Gаndhi, byname of Mоhаndаѕ Karamchand Gаndhi, (born Oсtоbеr 2, 1869, Pоrbаndаr, Indiа-diеd January 30, 1948, Delhi), Indian lawyer, роlitiсiаn, ѕосiаl асtiviѕt, аnd writеr whо bесаmе thе lеаdеr of the nаtiоnаliѕt movement against thе Britiѕh rulе оf Indiа. Aѕ ѕuсh, he came tо be соnѕidеrеd the father оf hiѕ соuntrу. Gаndhi iѕ internationally...
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Mahatma Gandhi (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
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Mahatma Gandhi es una figura pacifista de fama mundial que logró liderar el movimiento de independencia de la India contra el dominio británico empleando la desobediencia civil no violenta. Su ética y su postura inquebrantable inspiraron los movimientos por los derechos civiles y la libertad en todo el mundo, mucho después de su asesinato en 1948. Estas 100 citas han sido cuidadosamente seleccionadas para presentarles su carácter y su forma de...
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by non-violent protest. He led the Indian National Congress party in three major campaigns against British rule, each culminating in his arrest.
In Gandhi: A Very...
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A celebration of an unlikely friendship between a Christian missionary evangelist and a Hindu activist leader. The original edition has been updated by E. Stanley Jones Foundation in conjunction with Anne Matthews-Younes, granddaughter of E. Stanley Jones, and Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) - sein Name steht für den gewaltlosen Kampf für Frieden und Freiheit. Vom schüchternen, mit 13 Jahren zwangsverheirateten Mohandas Karamchand wurde er schließlich zur Symbolfigur des Pazifismus und zum geistigen Führer der indischen Unabhängigkeitsbewegung. Ein spannendes Feature auf den Spuren seines bewegten Lebens, inszeniert mit Musik, O-Tönen und mehreren Sprechern - in dieser Hörbiografie kommen Mahatma Gandhi...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mohandas K. Gandhi's An Autobiography
Mohandas K. Gandhi's An Autobiography (1927) chronicles a life of sacrifice, abstinence, love, and humility. Gandhi recounts his life from his early childhood until 1921, tracing the painful and challenging path he took as he searched for Truth and utmost humility. He details the moral experiments he conducted through self-abnegation, and tackles the topics of child marriage,...
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Fourteen Lessons to instruct, inspire, and encourage... History's great leaders have much to teach us, and no one outshines Alan Axelrod in extracting those lessons and applying them to today's business world. His Elizabeth I, CEO and Patton on Leadership both became BusinessWeek bestsellers-and now, to follow his recent Winston Churchill, CEO, Axelrod has found a new and perhaps surprising subject for his popular format: Gandhi. Gandhi, a CEO? Absolutely-and...
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Bigger has not turned out better. Servicing the global economy has exacted a heavy toll in the erosion of our communities and the destruction of our environment. Increasingly, we are coming to realize that the way forward looks a lot like the way back - back to strong local economies, back to resilient, tight-knit communities, back to the land and work that is real.
As we chart our course through these uncertain times, we are hungry for inspiration....
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The fascinating quest of a New York Times contributor to follow Mahatma Gandhi's code of ethics in modern times-and to discover what it actually takes to "Be the change you want to see in the world"
Mahatma Gandhi championed truth and nonviolence, led the struggle for India's independence, and staunchly stood up for the marginalized. "When I despair," he said, "I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won."
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15) Cultivating Inner Peace: Exploring the Psychology, Wisdom, and Poetry of Gandhi, Thoreau, the Buddha
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The way to inner peace is illuminated in this accessible guide to tending one's inner landscape. The lives of outstanding figures such as the Buddha, Walt Whitman, and Gandhi are used to connect the ideal of inner peace with how real people cultivate peace in their everyday lives.
Peacefulness as dynamic, selective, and egoless is shown through the constructive act of choosing different ways of life, such as having a smaller family or a more modest...
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For more than twenty years past I have been paying special attention to the question of Health. While in England, I had to make my own arrangements for food and drink, and I can say, therefore, that my experience is quite reliable. I have arrived at certain definite conclusions from that experience, and I now set them down for the benefit of my readers. As the familiar saying goes, 'Prevention is better than cure.' It is far easier and safer to prevent...
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The Story of My Experiments with Truth, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, is a very popular and influential book. It covers the period from his birth (1869) to the year 1921, describing his childhood, his school days, his early marriage, his journeys abroad, his legal studies and practice.
The book is more about the experiments of Gandhi with truth and his Satyagraha movement, which literally means demanding the truth and nothing else. This is...
18) Freedom's Battle
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After the great war it is difficult, to point out a single nation that is happy; but this has come out of the war, that there is not a single nation outside India, that is not either free or striving to be free. It is said that we, too, are on the road to freedom, that it is better to be on the certain though slow course of gradual unfoldment of freedom than to take the troubled and dangerous path of revolution whether peaceful or violent, and that...
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In Strong Supply Chains Through Resilient Operations: Five Principles for Leaders to Win in a Volatile World, a team of dedicated, veteran operations strategists delivers a practical and hands-on discussion of how to future-proof your company's supply chains through a relentless focus on resilience. In the book, you'll discover how to shift your firm's emphasis from "low-cost" to "low volatility" as you protect your company against the supply and...
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Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work. It is a key to understanding not only his life and thoughts but also the politics of South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. Hind Swaraj is the seed from which the tree of Gandhian thought has grown to its full stature. For those interested in Gandhi's thought in a general way, it is the right place to start, for it is here that he presents his basic ideas in their proper relationship...
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