Three things you may not have known about one of India's most famous men
His illustrious career as a freedom fighter did not start in India
When Gandhi finished law school in the UK in 1891, he actually did not find success practicing law in India; his law practice fell apart in about a year because Gandhi "lacked knowledge" of Indian law. Therefore, in 1893, Gandhi left India and arrived in South Africa. There he founded a newspaper, the Indian Opinion, and worked to increase the civil rights of the large Indian population in places like Natal, South Africa, and the Transvaal. In fact, during his fight for Indian rights in British South Africa, Gandhi pioneered Satyagraha, his famous principle of nonviolence and noncompliance against oppressive government policies, as he protested British laws attempting to strip South African Indian of the right to vote, the right to own property, as well as other fundamental liberties.
2. He experimented with utopian living communities
During his time in South Africa, Gandhi also tried to get entire groups of supporters to accomplish a "monastic ideal" by undertaking an extremely moral life of seclusion and self-perfection, away from industry and civilization. In particular, one the Gandhi's utopian communities, the Phoenix Settlement, was involved with publishing the Indian Opinion. Various community members did different jobs, from printing to type setting, all day and were usually not paid. Interestingly, Gandhi rejected any form of mechanized publication technology because he believed that people could reach the highest "moral uplift" if they did everything by hand in the community, slowly and steadily. Closed after Gandhi's death in 1948, the settlement (or ashram as Gandhi referred to it as) was reopened in 2000 by the South Africans as a "beacon of peace and reconciliation."
Gandhi was against sex for pleasure
On a very different note from newspapers and Africa, Gandhi believed that all sex not done specifically for procreation was simply mere "lust" and that marriages needed to be "spiritual" (i.e. celibate outside of reproduction). He made these sentiments clear during a meeting with birth control advocate Margaret Sanger in 1935, where he argued that wives should "resist" their husbands' "animal passion" and that for that reason, contraception was largely unnecessary. In fact, in a bizarre example of this anti-sex resolve, Gandhi often asked his teenage grandnieces to sleep with him naked at night to test his carnal control mechanisms. To say that is is perverse is an understatement; let's hope that Gandhi never succumbed to his "lust" during these times.
Photo by 
person holding black smartphone on white textile
Photo by 
StableDiffusion
Photo by 
Photo by 
roommate as a therapist
StableDiffusion
woman in white shirt eating pizza
Photo by 
person holding remote pointing at TV
Photo by 
person holding assorted clothes in wooden hanger
Photo by 
a couple of 
friends cleaning apartment
StableDiffusion
man driving car during golden hour
Photo by 
bacon strips and melted cheese topped fries on oval white and blue platter with gray stainless steel forks
Photo by 
selective focus photography of eyeshadow palette
Photo by 
brown wooden framed white padded chair in between green indoor leaf plants inside bedroom
Photo by 
women forming 
taking 
man in red polo shirt pouring wine on clear wine glass
Photo by 
woman in black jacket standing on road during daytime
Photo by 
StableDiffusion
StableDiffusion
student thinking i shouldnt have procrastinated all semester
StableDiffusion
Photo by 
Photo by 
Photo by 
StableDiffusion
StableDiffusion
Photo by 
Photo by 
Lumiere figure at the Disney Store at the Ala Moana Shoppi… | Flickr
StableDiffusion
StableDiffusion
10. Extra BlanketsJuwenin Home 100% Cotton Knitted Throw Blanket
StableDiffusion
StableDiffusion
File:Kishlaru familie.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
Photo by Hanna Balan on Unsplash
StableDiffusion
black blue and yellow round illustrationPhoto by 
