Gandhi is, to my mind, the gold standard of 20th-century political greatness. ... By the end of "Great Soul," a generous reader's heart may be broken, no less than Gandhi's.

Born October 2, 1869, Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India. Employing a ...

The 78-year-old leader whose people had christened him the Great Soul of India died at 5:45 p.m. (7:15 a.m. EST) with his head cradled in the lap of his 16-year-old granddaughter, Mani.

Great Soul — Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, the new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times editor Joseph Lelyveld, has stirred controversy and anger in India over references ...

One of my favorite historical figures is Mahatma (means Great Soul) Gandhi, an Indian lawyer who led his country to freedom from British rule in 1947, used his philosophy of ...

Devadas Gandhi, eldest son of the slain leader, touched fire to the pyre to consume the earthly remains of India's great soul. For the moment India's capital was unified by grief over Gandhi's death.

Don't miss out on the headlines from NSW. Followed categories will be added to My News. As he charmed workers at British cotton mills in the 1930s, at home in India Mohandas Gandhi was deemed the ...

January 30 marks the 75th anniversary of the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi — better known as "Mahatma" ("great soul" in English) — was one of the leaders of India's ...

What we have received from her, belatedly, is an invaluable gift, a testament to the trauma and triumph of the Great Soul. The Diary of Manu Gandhi is both a matchless historical document and a ...