# Mohandas Gandhi

Have you ever had a bully take your toy, and a grown-up just told you to "ignore" them? It sounds so unfair, right?! But what if refusing to fight back was actually the most powerful weapon in the world? Welcome to the incredible true story of Mohandas Gandhi! In the 1930s, the powerful British Emp…

Mohandas Gandhi lived a life of action, wrote furiously for decades, constantly examined himself & the world, & kept changing. He contained multitudes. Welcome to episode 10 of Watching the Wheels, hosted by Amit Varma, Shruti Rajagopalan and Pranay Kotasthane. In this episode, our hosts discuss wh…

Explore the profound story of the Partition of India in this in-depth episode, "When One Nation Became Two." Discover how India and Pakistan emerged from the end of nearly two centuries of British colonial rule in 1947, resulting in one of the largest mass migrations in modern history. This episode…

On this day, 15 October 1913, Indian workers at the Farleigh colliery near Newcastle, South Africa, went on strike in protest against a tax on former indentured servants. The move was part of an ongoing campaign against racist pass laws in the white-ruled British colony.The laws restricted the move…