In the Indian city of Siliguri, boys dressed up Tuesday as Mahatma Gandhi as part of the famous leader’s 139th birthday celebrations. Gandhi, celebrated as the ‘father of the nation,’ led India to independence from Britain. India’s National Day is observed on his birthday. Last June, the United Nations General Assembly also decided to observe […]

Time magazine has a new feature called “The Best (& Worst) TIME Covers”. The one from 1931 features Gandhi.

He emerged from jail, having served a nine-month term for a minor offense (gun-carrying), and though widely publicized manage to remain at large. Curiously, it was in a jail that the year’s end found the […]