Mahatma Gandhi - Humanity is an ocean...

Mahatma Gandhi is such a person in the history of India who fought till his last breath for the interest of the country. He who followed the path of non-violence in the freedom movement had stunned the British rulers. Mahatma Gandhi is also addressed as the Father of the Nation. Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela were also greatly influenced by his ideology of truth and non-violence. Mahatma Gandhi also fought non-violently against injustice and racial discrimination in Africa for 21 consecutive years, which cost the British not only in Africa but also in India.
Gandhiji followed non-violence and truth in all circumstances and also advocated for everyone to follow them. He spent his life in the Sabarmati Ashram and wore the traditional Indian dress of dhoti and a shawl made of cotton, which he himself made by hand spinning the yarn on a spinning wheel.
The full name of Mahatma Gandhi was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar, Gujarat. Father's name was Karamchandra Gandhi, who was the Diwan of a small princely state of Kathiawar during the British Raj. Mahatma Gandhi was married to Kasturba Gandhi at the age of just 13. Gandhi's father died two years after the marriage, and just one year after the father's death, he had his first child, but unfortunately he died shortly after birth.