Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Profession: Politician, Lawyer, Peace Activist, Philosopher
Brothers of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Laxmidas Karamchand Gandhi,
Karsandas Gandhi
Father of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Karamchand Gandhi, Dewan (chief minister) of Porbandar state
Mother of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Putlibai Gandhi (Homemaker)
Sister of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Raliatbehn Gandhi
Wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Kasturba Gandhi
Favourite Author of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Leo Tolstoy
Favourite Persons of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Gautama Buddha, Harishchandra, and his mother Putlibai
Controversies of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
In 2016, some Ghanian students called for the removal of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from a university campus. They accused Gandhi of being racist towards black people by holding the view that Indians were higher than them. This view was also held by two South African professors Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed who claimed that Gandhi labelled black Africans as 'savage,' 'raw' and "indolent'. Gandhi also demanded separate entrances for blacks and Indians at the Durban post office while he was living in South Africa.
In 1906, Gandhi took an oath to abstain from sex life. Gandhi carried out several experiments to test himself as a celibate. He brought his grandniece Manubehn to sleep naked in his bed as part of a spiritual experiment in which Gandhi could test himself as a "Brahmachari". Several other young women and girls also sometimes shared his bed as part of his experiments. These experiments took flak from most of the Indian Politicians and the people of India.
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