“Here we train students in heart, hand, and head, in that order,” he said, sitting on the floor wearing white khadi. “Like Gandhi, we build character through communal life and work.

During a three-week visit in 1927, the Mahatma urged Parsis, Nattukotai Chettiars and Reddiars, among other Indians in Ceylon, to be just and charitable.

Wearing Khadi gives you a sense of satisfaction. I first got attracted to Khadi when, during a visit to a Gandhi Ashram, I ...

When the British were ruling even humble citizens, including government servants, showed their patriotism by wearing khadi (hand-spun) clothes. In short, Indira Gandhi had outlawed the ...

Gandhi expanded his nonviolence programme to include the swadeshi policy -- the boycott of British goods. From this originated his spinning wheel, as he encouraged all Indians to wear khadi ...