I recall my traveling on 16th September 2004 in a train powered by steam engine in a first class compartment of 1900’s vintage organized by Durban state of South Africa. When the train was mov
ing from one station to another, Mahatma Gandhi’s struggle against apartheid system in South Africa was going through my mind. The train halted at Pietermartizburg, the station where the monster of apartheid bite Gandhiji on a cold winter night. He was evicted out of a first class compartment because of the colour of his skin. When I alighted at the Pietermartizburg railway station, I saw a plaque (see pic) in the railway station, which reads like this:
In the Vicinity of this plaque
M.K. GANDHI was evicted
from a first class
compartment on the night of
7 June 1893.
This incident changed
the course of his life.
He took up the fight
against racial oppression.
His active non-violence
started from that date.
This was the rebirth of Ahimsa Dharma after the Kalinga War in 300 B.C. Gandhiji later developed the Ahimsa Dharma and gave India a powerful tool to win independence. Mahatma Gandhi was influenced by Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech. Teachings of Gandhi came to inspire nonviolent movements notably in the U.S.A. under the civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
In the Vicinity of this plaque
M.K. GANDHI was evicted
from a first class
compartment on the night of
7 June 1893.
This incident changed
the course of his life.
He took up the fight
against racial oppression.
His active non-violence
started from that date.
This was the rebirth of Ahimsa Dharma after the Kalinga War in 300 B.C. Gandhiji later developed the Ahimsa Dharma and gave India a powerful tool to win independence. Mahatma Gandhi was influenced by Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech. Teachings of Gandhi came to inspire nonviolent movements notably in the U.S.A. under the civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
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