Books with title Experiments with Motion

Gandhi is the greatest Indian since Buddha. His great contribution was the theory and practice of non-violence... usage of moral weapons to achieve practical results. - John Gunther Gandhi was a key to revolutions of our time. Of all the revolutionaries who have dominated this century s stage- Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and Mao Gandhi alone offered hope for reform without destruction. It seems no less important to understand his history than to study the course of fascism and communism. - Chester Bowles Gandhi had come through time and the circumstances of his of repeated ideologies to be regarded as the very symbol and hypotheses of peace... In the evolution of civilization if it is to survive- all men cannot fail eventually to adopt his belief that the process of mass application of force to resolve contentious issues is fundamentally not only wrong but contains within itself the germs of self destruction. He was one of those prophets who lived for ahead of his times. - Gen. Mac Arthur Generations to come will scarce believe that such a man as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon the earth. - Einstein I have met Lenin, Churchill, Franklin, D.Rosevelt, Wilkie, Stalin, Litvinov, Attlee, Einstein, Lloyd George, Eleanor Roosevelt, and many other famous people. I have never met a more remarkable person than Gandhi. Gandhi was a strong individual, and his strength lay in the richness of his personality... He was a remarkable phenomenon, quiet and insidiously overwhelming. Intellectual contact with him was a delight because he opened his mind and allowed one to see how the machine worked... He enriched politics with ethics... Having nothing, he could pay for his principles... His greatness lay in doing what everybody could but doesn t . Louis Fishcer

""It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography."" The Story of My Experiments with Truth, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, is a very popular and influential book. It covers the period from his birth (1869) to the year 1921, describing his childhood, his school days, his early marriage, his journeys abroad, his legal studies and practise. In the last chapter, he noted, ""My life from this point onward has been so public that there is hardly anything about it that people do not know..."" ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was the prominent figure in the freedom struggle in India from the British rule. He is also known as the 'The Father of the Nation', in India. The author has written a number of books and some of them include Character & Nation Building, India of My Dreams, and All Men are Brothers. The author was born on the 2nd of October, 1869, in Porbandar, Gujarat. In the year 1942, he played a key role in launching the Quit India movement, which was intended at forcing the British to leave the nation. As a result of launching this movement, he was thrown in prison and remained there for several years, due to other political offenses allegedly committed by him. At all times, he practised satyagraha, which is the teaching of non-violence. As the British rule ended, he was saddened by India's partition, and tried his best to bring peace among the Sikhs and Muslims. On the 30th of January, 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead by a Hindu nationalist, for allegedly being highly concerned about the nation's Muslim population.