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1 day ago · Among these was Nathuram Godse, a militant Hindu nationalist from Pune, western India, who assassinated Gandhi by firing three bullets into his chest at an interfaith prayer meeting in Delhi on 30 January 1948.
21 hours ago · Nathuram Godse was also an avid reader of the Gita. Alas, they read the sacred text differently. Godse thought that it encouraged him to buy an Italian revolver, stay in a Muslim-owned hotel in New Delhi, wear a green shirt, and shoot Gandhi at close quarters. Alas, a brave police officer in civvies caught him and pinned him down.
3 days ago · Mahatma Gandhi (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India—died January 30, 1948, Delhi) was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India. As such, he came to be considered the father of his country.
- Initially, Gandhi’s campaigns sought to combat the second-class status Indians received at the hands of the British regime. Eventually, however, th...
- Gandhi’s family practiced a kind of Vaishnavism, one of the major traditions within Hinduism, that was inflected through the morally rigorous tenet...
- Within India, Gandhi’s philosophy lived on in the messages of reformers such as social activist Vinoba Bhave. Abroad, activists such as Martin Luth...
- Gandhi’s father was a local government official working under the suzerainty of the British Raj, and his mother was a religious devotee who—like th...
- As lauded a figure as Gandhi has become, his actions and beliefs didn’t escape the criticism of his contemporaries. Liberal politicians thought he...
2 days ago · Nathuram Godse is the man who killed Monhandas Karamchand Gandhi. This drama is based on the confession given by him in the court. This critically acclaimed show has made its mark in various ways in India and abroad since last 20 years.
6 days ago · “Mahatma Gandhi and [Nathuram] Godse both believed in Bhagavad Gita. But Gandhi learnt tolerance, non-violence and the message of Bhagavad Gita and Lord Krishna. Godse learnt violence and ...
4 days ago · The RSS’s Nanaji Deshmukh, who has recently been awarded Bharat Ratna by the BJP regime, became a central organiser of the movement. This gave respectability to the RSS as it was still under a cloud due to its historical links to Nathuram Godse, the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi.
4 days ago · Nathuram Godse is said to have fired three bullets at Gandhi. File. You're in incognito mode! Signup to unlock this article and more! Already a subscriber? Log in. The Hindu...
