Timir biswas biography of mahatma gandhi
Honoring the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, the beacon of truth, non-violence, and unity..
After his demise in August , Timir Basu, a devoted Marxist comrade of Samar Sen, has been bringing out the Weekly in spite of the tremendous.
After returning to India in , Gandhi briefly worked in Rajkot, where he struggled to build a successful legal practice before moving to Bombay (now Mumbai).
However, he was not very successful and found it difficult to fit into the city's Westernised culture.
In , Gandhi accepted a one-year contract to work at Dada Abdulla & Co., a firm of Indian merchants in South Africa, as a clerk and legal representative.
As part of his job, he required to assist with a legal case involving business transactions in order to resolve disputes through arbitration.
It was here that he first experienced racial discrimination himself.
One incident in particular had a profound impact on Gandhi. In June of , he was travelling by train from Durban to Pretoria when he was ordered to move from first class to third class, purely based upon his race.
When Gandhi refused, he was thrown off the train, and had to spend a night sleeping in Pietermaritzburg train station.
This was a critical point
