Learn more about Gandhi

This month's Easy English Times featured a quote from Gandhi about non-violence. Some students did not know who Gandhi was. Who was Gandhi?

Gandhi’s complete name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He is also known as Mahatma Gandhi. He was born in 1869 in India and got married when he was 13 years old to a girl who was also 13 years old. Her name was Kasturba Makhanji. When Gandhi was 18, he went to college and became a lawyer. Gandhi became famous throughout the world when he became a leader in the Indian movement to gain independence from England. He believed in non-violence and taught his supporters to work for freedom using non-violent methods. Gandhi was assassinated (killed for political reasons) in 1948.

Read more about Gandhi and see more photographs from his life at http://www.mkgandhi.org/ (The photo you see above is from this collection of photos.)

You can see a very short video of Gandhi and listen to him speak at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8335892845268297097