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Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948 at age 78 in the compound of The Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti), a large mansion in central New Delhi.His assassin was Nathuram Godse, from Pune, Maharashtra, a Hindu nationalist, [1] with a history of association with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu paramilitary organization [2] and of membership of the Hindu Mahasabha.
Nathuram Vinayak Godse (19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949) (pronunciation ⓘ) was the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi.He was a Hindu nationalist [1] from Maharashtra [2] who shot Gandhi in the chest three times at point blank range at a multi-faith prayer meeting in Birla House in New Delhi on 30 January 1948.
The light has gone out of our lives is a speech that was delivered ex tempore by Jawaharlal Nehru, [1] the first Prime Minister of India, on January 30, 1948, following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi earlier that evening. It is often cited as one of the greatest speeches in history.
Even though he was assassinated in 1948, people still see him as an emblem of peace today. Mahatma Gandhi rose to fame through peaceful protests regarding India’s freedom from British colonizers.
Gandhi summarised his beliefs first when he said, "God is Truth." Gandhi would later change this statement to "Truth is God." Thus, satya (truth) in Gandhi's philosophy is "God". [237] Gandhi, states Richards, described the term "God" not as a separate power, but as the Being (Brahman, Atman) of the Advaita Vedanta tradition, a nondual ...
"As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side." [29] Gandhi was critical of the hypocrisy in organised religion, rather than the principles on which they were based.
The university, where Higgs was emeritus professor, said he died Monday following a short illness. Higgs predicted the existence of a new particle, which came to be known as the Higgs boson, in 1964.
However, the veracity of this claim has never been truly verified, with new claims from one of his personal attendants (Venkita Kalyanam, who was standing behind Gandhi when he was assassinated) actually alluding to the fact that Gandhi died without mentioning the words which have been widely ascribed to him, and made immortal by the ...