Mohandas Karamchard Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchard Gandhi was born on October 2 1869 into a family of merchants. Breaking with caste tradition he went to England to study law when he was 19 years of age. His fellow students shunned him because he was an Indian. It was in London where he read Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience", which inspired his principle of non violence. He returned to India in 1891. But two years later he left again to South Africa where he was to stay for 20 years. He was the country's first "coloured" lawyer to be admitted to the bar.

Deeply troubled by the country's racism towards Indians, he founded the Natal Indian Congress to agitate for Indian rights in 1894.

Gandhi was the pre-eminent political n spiritual leader of India during the Indian Independence movement.

The name "mahatma" means "great soul", and his philosophy of peaceful resistance is widely credited with having forced the peaceful end of the British rule of India in 1947, the year before his death. On January 30 1948 India's "Father of the Nation" Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, he was killed by a fellow Hindu.

He is officially honored in India as Father of the Nation and his birthday is commemorated as a national holiday.

The Difference between Hindu and Muslim

There are a few beliefs that Hindu and Muslims are the same but they are very different.

Firstly the Hindu's believe in a one of a kind polytheistic religion which means that they believe in the existence of many Gods while the Muslim's believe in one God. Secondly the Hindu's considers everything living and non living, to be divine and sacred, while the Muslim's beliefs are that Allah is the personal name of the One true God. The Hindu's believe that the purpose of life is to realize that we are apart of God and we can return to him, while the Muslim's believe that the purpose of life is to submit to the will of Allah and enjoy heaven jannat as a reward from him. Lastly the Hindu's believe in selfless acts and thoughts as well as devotions to God help one to be reborn at a higher level, once you are born again, while the Muslim's believe fast during the month of Ramadan the month of that Muhammad received the Qur'an from Allah.

These are a few of the differences that differentiate the the religions and beliefs of the Hindu's and Muslim's.

Anita Desai

Anita Desai was born on June 24 1937 in Mussoorie. Her birth name was Anita Mazumbar. Anitas mother was a German woman names Toni Nime and her father was Bengali businessman named D.N. Mazumbar. She completed her school days from Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School in Delhi and graduated in English Literature.

Anita is an Indian novelist and short story writer. Antia is well known for her sensitive portayal of the inner feelings of her female characters. Many of her novels explore tensions between family members and the alienation of middle class women. In the novels she wrote later on her themes varied examples of these themes are German anti-semitism, the demise of traditions and western stereotypical views of India.

Anita Desai was married in the year 1958 to Ashvin Desai and had four children together.