I would like to share some little known facts about him which most of us don’t know....
(1) He had a set of false teeth, which he carried in a fold of his loin cloth. He put them in his mouth only when he wanted to eat. After his meal, he took them out, washed them and put them back in his loin cloth again.
(2) Mahatma Gandhi spoke English with an Irish accent, for one of his first teachers was an Irishman.
(3) During the freedom struggle, he wore nothing but a loin cloth , but for years he lived in London and used to wear a silk hat and spats and carried a cane.
(4) He was educated at London University and became an attorney. But the first time he attempted to make a speech in court, his knees trembled, and he was so frightened that he had to sit down in confusion and defeat.
(5) His income during those days in South Africa touched fifteen thousand dollars a year! Something still a dream for most Indians !
(6) On seeing the hopeless condition of one tenth of India which was living in a hungry and half-starved state, Mahatma Gandhi pleaded with them to cease bringing children into a world filled with so much misery and want.
(7) Mahatma Gandhi experimented with diets to see how cheaply he could live and remain healthy. He started living principally on fruit and goats’ milk and olive oil.
(8) Mahatma Gandhi inspired millions of people world over to take the path of non-violence and civil disobedience. 5 world leaders who got Noble Peace prize viz. Martin Luther King Jr. (USA), Dalai Lama (Tibet), Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar), Nelson Mandela (S. Africa) and Adolfo Perez Esquivel (Argentina) have acknowledged the fact that they were influenced by the philosophy of Gandhi.
Yet, Mahatma Gandhi; the man who inspired these Nobel Peace Prize winners, never got a Noble Prize !
I think it is a loss for the Noble - the prize; not for Gandhi - the man who is above all prizes.
Many Countries have issued lot of stamps on Mahatma Gandhi.
(Surname is a small country in upper part of South America. It issued a stamp on Gandhiji.)
(African Country Uganda also issued two stamps on Gandhiji.)
(Djibouti stamp on Gandhiji)
(Comores stamp on Gandhiji.)
(Antigua and Barbuda's series of Gandhi stamps.)
(This stamp was issued by Russian Postal Department in 1969)
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