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Mahatma Gandhi

December 2023

  • Satish Kumar in Devon

    ‘Act out of love not anger’: green trailblazer calls for unity in movement

    Satish Kumar, founder of ecological college in Devon, says a brighter future requires compassion and long-term thinking

September 2023

  • Rana Ayyub

    What Modi won’t show the G20: Muslims killed, harassed by the police and abused in school

    Rana Ayyub
    The PM is keen to show India as the ‘mother of democracy’, but this is one of the most undemocratic periods in its history, says the journalist Rana Ayyub

January 2023

  • Deepak Antani as Mahatma Gandhi in Ghandi-Godse Ek Yudh.

    Gandhi Godse Ek Yudh (War of Ideologies) review – dangerously bland alternate history

    In imagining a world where Gandhi and his killer learned to get along, Rajkumar Santoshi simplifies differences that remain perilous for India

August 2022

  • Hundreds of Muslim refugees in Delhi pack inside and atop the engine and coaches of a Pakistan-bound train on 27 September 1947.

    India marks 75 years of independence from Britain – in pictures

    This month marks three-quarters of a century since the creation of the independent state of India after British rule. Here we look back at some of the key events that shaped the country

May 2022

  • Nadeem Islam (Mithun) and Shubham Saraf (Nathuram Godse) in The Father and the Assassin at the National Theatre. Credits- Marc Brenner 9093

    The Father and the Assassin review – gripping tale of the man who killed Gandhi

    Anupama Chandrasekhar artfully unpicks the forces of history with a tale of violence and colonialism that echoes into today
  • A man gesturing towards a female colleague, who is looking away from him and towards the camera

    Brief letters
    Discredit where it’s due for ‘hepeat’ offenders

    Brief letters: Sexist behaviour | Lib Dems and Tories | Making the Green party count | Gandhi T-shirt | Nature springs back
  • Honoured by statues and memorials … Godse, who was hanged for the 1948 assassination.

    The celebrated assassin: the play about Gandhi’s killer, still dividing India

    Having written about sex tapes and the Delhi bus gang-rape, Anupama Chandrasekhar is tackling Nathuram Godse, the gunman who was raised as a girl – and is now a hero to Hindu nationalists

April 2022

  • Jignesh Mevani, a prominent campaigner for India’s marginalised low-caste Dalit community.

    Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi

    Jignesh Mevani accused prime minister of idolising Nathuram Godse, killer of Mahatma Gandhi

March 2022

  • Benito Mussolini, Mahatma Gandhi, Singh the lion cub, Freda and Nick.

    Guardian Australia Reads
    Travelling lions, sinking islands and the last video store

  • A composite photograph of items from Ian Black’s collection of political memorabilia

    The Guardian picture essay
    From a Thatcher nutcracker to a Trump toilet brush: my curious collection of political memorabilia

February 2022

  • Mahatma Gandhi

    ‘A flashy theme park’: outcry over Modi’s plans for the Gandhi ashram

    The site Mahatma Gandhi lived at during 1917-30 is getting a very costly makeover many think is meant to distort his legacy

July 2021

  • Benito Mussolini, Mahatma Gandhi, Singh the lion cub, Freda and Nick.

    The lion in the London black cab: the remarkable story of Singh, and the boy who loved him

    Gifted as a cub by a Maharajah to a young British boy, Singh lived at a house in Surrey before outgrowing his home and being driven in a black cab to the zoo. Now his story has been made into a book

January 2021

  • Police personnel pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi near Mumbai

    Mahatma Gandhi's killer venerated as Hindu nationalism resurges in India

    Nathuram Godse rehabilitated from traitor to patriot for many, as Gandhi’s vision of secular India eroded by ruling BJP

December 2020

  • The manufacture of opium in India, January 1920.

    From the Guardian archive
    Gandhi tries to get colonial Britain to ban opium in India – archive, 1926

    9 December 1926: Addiction, particularly among the poor, has become a serious problem

October 2020

  • A silent protest against an attack on students at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, by a masked mob in January.

    As India drifts into autocracy, nonviolent protest is the most powerful resistance

    Amartya Sen
    The Hindu nationalist regime has cultivated religious animosity – undermining the nation’s secular traditions, says economist Amartya Sen

August 2020

  • Gandhi's glasses

    Gandhi's glasses sell for £260,000 in UK auction

    Gandhi gave gold-plated glasses to vendor’s uncle who worked for BP in South Africa in 1920s

June 2020

  • Museum bound ... Colston’s statue is raised from the depths at Bristol harbour.

    'It's exciting!': Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor and Jake Chapman on the statue-topplers

  • Sir Ben Kingsley as Gandhi, centre, with Roshan Seth as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Alyque Padamsee as Mohammed Ali Jinnah.

    The classic film I've never seen
    I've never seen … Gandhi

May 2020

  • Crowds at a demonstration in Rome in February 2020 by the Italian Sardines movement against right-wing populism

    Grassroots movements can rise during this crisis – Italy’s Sardines group shows how

    Laura Spinney
    Local organisers in India had a profound impact during the 18 flu pandemic, says science journalist Laura Spinney

December 2019

  • Protesters against the Citizenship Amendment Act after Friday prayers outside the Jama Masjid in New Delhi.

    Gandhi’s great-grandson joins wave of protest at law isolating India’s Muslims

    As the new Citizenship Act risks defining Muslims as ‘infiltrators’, Tushar Arun Gandhi lends support to the backlash
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