MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : Mahatma Gandhi

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love.

It is the prerogative of the brave.

-Mahatma Gandhi-

Mahatma Gandhi

Name: Mahatma Gandhi
Occupation: Anti-War Activist
Birth Date: October 02, 1869
Death Date: January 30, 1948
Education: Samaldas College at Bhavnagar, Gujarat, University College London
Place Of Birth: Porbandar, Kathiawar, India
Place Of Death: New Delhi, India
Full Name: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India, Mahatma Gandhi studied law and came to advocate for the rights of Indians, both at home and in South Africa. Gandhi became a leader of India's independence movement, organizing boycotts against British institutions in peaceful forms of civil disobedience. He was killed by a fanatic in 1948.

Spiritual and Political Leader

Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Kathiawar, India. He studied law in London, England, but in 1893 went to South Africa, where he spent 20 years opposing discriminatory legislation against Indians. As a pioneer of Satyagraha, or resistance through mass non-violent civil disobedience, he became one of the major political and spiritual leaders of his time. Satyagraha remains one of the most potent philosophies in freedom struggles throughout the world today.

Fight for Indian Liberation

In 1914, Gandhi returned to India, where he supported the Home Rule movement, and became leader of the Indian National Congress, advocating a policy of non-violent non-co-operation to achieve independence. His goal was to help poor farmers and laborers protest oppressive taxation and discrimination. He struggled to alleviate poverty, liberate women and put an end to caste discrimination, with the ultimate objective being self-rule for India.

Following his civil disobedience campaign (1919-22), he was jailed for conspiracy (1922-24). In 1930, he led a landmark 320 km/200 mi march to the sea to collect salt in symbolic defiance of the government monopoly. On his release from prison (1931), he attended the London Round Table Conference on Indian constitutional reform. In 1946, he negotiated with the Cabinet Mission which recommended the new constitutional structure. After independence (1947), he tried to stop the Hindu-Muslim conflict in Bengal, a policy which led to his assassination in Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu fanatic.

Death and Legacy

Even after his death, Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and his belief in simple living--making his own clothes, eating a vegetarian diet, and using fasts for self-purification as well as a means of protest -- have been a beacon of hope for oppressed and marginalized people throughout the world.

Mahatma Gandhi's biography

What I believe can be my life.

It is actually my life :)

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : Carlos Santana

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart.

The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana

Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican and American musician who became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin American music. 

The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales and congas not generally heard in rock music. 

Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. 

He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. 

In 2003 Rolling Stone magazine listed Santana at number 20 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. 

He has won 10 Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards.

This is what he cares about. He does have a voice, right?



Open Heart
"To open your heart to someone means exposing the scars of the past."
“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”


+My personal experience!
I was in New Zealand for a while.
The beginning days I was stuck with my own style from my home country.
So I was so worried about all the new stuff I faced with such things as how to act, how to say, how to smile(EVEN!!)..
So I looked so NOT-OK!!
Even some people said to me "R U OKAY??" on the street! HAHA
You can tell I was so struggling..right?
Around 3 months I was just like that!! Worrying..and worrying..
Somehow I could meet such a good friend who is from Japan, I could open slightly my tiny and narrow heart(Not now any more!).
Since I have opened my heart to new circumstances and new people, I got so many goodness of it.
Good friends and good memory..
Now I so LOVE New Zealand(If you meet me you can tell!).
Open heart goes to Love...? Right!!:)

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : Mother Teresa (2)

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

Judge : to form an estimate or evaluation of; especially : to form a negative opinion about <shouldn't judge him because of his accent>.

ex.You should not judge people by their appearance.

Mother Teresa -Recognition and reception

In India
Mother Teresa had first been recognised by the Indian government more than a third of a century earlier when she was awarded the Padma Shri in 1962 and the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1969.
She continued to receive major Indian awards in subsequent years, including India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980.
Her official biography was written by an Indian civil servant, Navin Chawla, and published in 1992.

On 28 August 2010, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of her birth, the government of India issued a special 5 Rupee coin, being the sum she first arrived in India with.
President Pratibha Patil said of Mother Teresa, "Clad in a white sari with a blue border, she and the sisters of Missionaries of Charity became a symbol of hope to many – the aged, the destitute, the unemployed, the diseased, the terminally ill, and those abandoned by their families.

Indian views on Mother Teresa were not uniformly favourable.
Her critic Aroup Chatterjee, who was born and raised in Calcutta but lived in London, reports that "she was not a significant entity in Calcutta in her lifetime".
Chatterjee blames Mother Teresa for promoting a negative image of Calcutta, exaggerating the work done by her Mission, and misusing the funds and privileges at her disposal.
Her presence and profile grated in parts of the Indian political world, as she often opposed the Hindu Right.
The Bharatiya Janata Party clashed with her over the Christian Dalits, but praised her in death, sending a representative to her funeral.
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad, on the other hand, opposed the government's decision to grant her a state funeral.
Its secretary Giriraj Kishore said that "her first duty was to the Church and social service was incidental" and accused her of favouring Christians and conducting "secret baptisms" of the dying.
But, in its front page tribute, the Indian fortnightly Frontline dismissed these charges as "patently false" and said that they had "made no impact on the public perception of her work, especially in Calcutta".
Although praising her "selfless caring", energy and bravery, the author of the tribute was critical of Mother Teresa's public campaigning against abortion and that she claimed to be non-political when doing so.


+ Personal comment.
This is actaully my problem.
I get to quick judge sometimes and I hate this.
As soon as I judge others, I feel I am doing it and that makes me feel so bad.
Oops, I did it again!
I know, I do this so easily then others do to me way easier that I make lots of mistakes!!!!!!!!! Oh, my!!

It is a life-long jorney to become a better person!
Woo-hoo!