Indians response after Ayodhya verdict made this Gandhi Jayanti a special and True Gandhi Jayanti
since independence. Gandhi Jayanti October 2, the International
Non-Violence Day. Gandhi Jayanti is a celebrated in India to mark the
occasion of the birthday of the "Father of the Nation". He was born on
October 2, 1869. It is one of the three official declared National
Holidays of India and is observed in all Indian states and union
territories. The United Nations General Assembly announced on 15 June
2007 that it adopted a resolution which declared that the 2nd of
October will be celebrated as the International Day of Non-Violence. On
this day, in India, liquor is neither sold nor consumed in his honour.
Although
Mahatama Gandhi was not the originator of the principle of
non-violence, he was the first to apply it in the political field on a
huge scale. The concept of nonviolence and nonresistance has a long
history in Indian religious thought and has had many revivals in Hindu,
Buddhist, Jain, Jewish and Christian contexts. Gandhi explains his
philosophy and way of life in his autobiography The Story of My
Experiments with Truth. He was quoted as saying:
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always."
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for."
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