Remembering Gandhi: The barrister thrown off train rose as a revolutionary

The task of regarding the equal development of all humankind as one vehicle, as one journey, remains to be completed

We have to admit that a 'Pietermaritzburg 1893' gets re-enacted ever so often in the lives of disempowered citizens, not so much at the hands of fellow-passengers, guards or constables, but of those with social, political and economic monopoly.

“He himself”, writes Gandhi’s first biographer Joseph J. Doke, “was… the child of an ancient and noble race. His father, grandfather and uncle had been Prime Ministers of their respective Courts. His childhood and youth had been spent in India, familiar with the splendour of an Eastern palace. In manhood he had known nothing of colour-prejudice, but had been granted free access