: I praise such courage. I need such courage because, in this cause, I too am prepared to die. But, my friend, there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. Whatever they do to us, we will attack no one, kill no one. But we will not give our fingerprints, not one of...
Hindu extremists who were angered by Gandhi’s admonitions of peace hurled a bomb inside Birla House. It exploded just 25 yards away from Gandhi but left him unhurt. After the incident, Gandhi remarked that if an assassin killed him, he would die smiling with no anger in his heart and wi...
Rajiv Gandhi. Self: Dateline. Rajiv Gandhi was an Indian politician who served as the 6th Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the 1984 assassination of his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to become the youngest Indian Pr
It was the first year that she has failed to show up on this date in the dusty southern town of Sriperumbudur, where Rajiv was killed by a suicide bomber at an election rally. Following the service in Delhi, Mrs Gandhi and Mr Singh retreated behind closed doors to continue working on ...
On October 31, 1984, Gandhi was shot and killed by two of her bodyguards, both Sikhs, in retribution for the attack at the Golden Temple. She was immediately succeeded by son Rajiv, who was left to quell deadly anti-Sikh riots, and her body was cremated three days later in a Hindu ...
The last stop in the two-day swing was Bhopal, the Madhya Pradesh state capital and the site of the Union Carbide gas spill that killed more than 2,000 people last December. Leaders of the state Congress Party leadership, including the chief minister, were accused of negligence after the ac...
(1919),inwhichtroopsfiredonandkilledhundredsofnationalistdemonstrators,turnedhimtodirectpoliticalprotest.WithinayearhewasthedominantfigureintheIndianNationalCongress,whichhelaunchedonapolicyofnoncooperationwiththeBritishin1920-22.Althoughtotalnoncooperationwasabandoned,Gandhicontinuedcivildisobedience,organizingprotestmarches...
Shortly after midnight on 1 July 1942, my Uncle Bob was killed when theUSS Sturgeon, a U.S. submarine, fired torpedoes into the Japanese prisoner of war (POW) shipMontevideo Maru. The ship sank immediately and, along with 1,052 other POWs, Bob was killed. ...
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“The right thing for a man is not to desert his post, even if he has to run the risk of being killed or any other risk, whether he has chosen the post of his own will or has been put there by a superior” (Gandhi 1958–1994, vol. 8, p. 213; Plato 2017, Apology 28d).16...