Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi's full name is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was brought up in Gujarat family and studied law in London. You know this fact that there is not a single country in the world where the name of mahatma Gandhi is not know. You know why is so famous because he dedicated his whole life to the services of mother land. And also service for humanity. 

 

 Today i am going to tell you something about Mahatma Gandhi'ji, father of the nation or we can call him Bapu.

 The early days our country was made up of a large number of small Princely Kingdoms. Porbandar in Gujarat was one such Princely Kingdom. Gandhiji's father Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Kaba, was a Minister there. Kaba Gandhi was an honest, upright man, a strict disciplinarian, and very hot tempered. His wife Putlibai was a extremely religious person. She would not have her meal until she had worshipped the sun. Hence sometimes in the rainy season, she would go hungry for two-three days at a stretch. She was a very loving person, and immensely hard-working. To these parents a son was born on October 2nd, 1869. He was their youngest son. He was called Mohandas. He was our Gandhiji.

  He was deeply attached to his parents and brothers. The values of truthfulness, honesty, integrity were instilled in him from the very beginning. As a child he was not very brave. He was mortally afraid of the dark, of ghosts and spirits, and also of snakes and scorpions.

At night he would cry in fear. The maid who looked after him scolded him very often. "You should be ashamed of yourself" she said. "What will you do when you grow up?" She then told him that every time he was frightened he should take the name of God Rama. Gandhiji took her advice, and finally he overcome his fear. Soon it was time for him to go to school. As his father was in Rajkot at that time, he attended the school there. he was a shy at that time, he would not mix with  other children. Most of the time he kept to himself. In the beginning he did not like some of the subjects that were taught to him, but with encouragement from his teachers he studied them, and began to enjoy them. From then onwards he took his studies very seriously. Mohandas  was very shy.

 One day, the Inspector of Schools, Mr Giles, came to Mohandas's school. He read out five English words to the class and asked the boys to write them down. Mohandas wrote four words correctly but the fifth one he made spell mistake. at that time his teacher gave him instruction behind the inspector that you would copy that word from your  neighbour's slate. but Mohandas ignored sign.
As he went home that evening, Mohan was not unhappy. He knew he had done the right thing. What made him sad was that his teacher should have asked him to cheat.

 Right then he resolved that he would always lead a truthful and honest life, and throughout his life he stuck to his resolution.