Who is your ideal person?

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I can think of no one else but Mahatma Gandhiji as my hero. I'll explain u why?

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Gandhi first employed his ideas of civil disobedience in the Indian struggle for civil rights in South Africa. Upon his return to India, Gandhi helped lead poor farmers and labourers to protest oppressive taxation and widespread discrimination. Leading the Indian National Congress, Gandhi worked for the alleviation of poverty, the liberation of women, brotherhood amongst diverse communities, an end to untouchability and caste discrimination and for the economic self-sufficiency of the nation. But Gandhi's work focused upon the goal of Swaraj — the independence of India. Gandhi famously led Indians in the disobedience of the salt tax through the 400 kilometre (248 miles) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and in an open call for the British to Quit India in 1942. He spent his final years fighting for communal harmony.

Gandhi remained committed to non-violence and truth even in the most extreme situations. Gandhi was a student of Hindu philosophy and lived simply, organizing an ashram that was self-sufficient in its needs. He made his own clothes and lived on a simple vegetarian diet. He used rigorous fasts for self-purification as well as a means of protest. Gandhi's teachings have inspired civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi. Gandhi is honoured as the Father of the Nation in India and his birthday on October 2 is annually commemorated as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday.

His contribution to indian independece.

In 1942, after rejection of his offer to cooperate with Great Britain in World War II if the British would grant immediate independence to India, Gandhi called for satyagraha and launched the Quit India movement. He was then interned until 1944. Gandhi was a major figure in the postwar conferences with the viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, and Muslim League leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah that led to India's independence and the carving out of a separate Muslim state (Pakistan), although Gandhi vigorously opposed the partition.

When violence broke out between Hindus and Muslims, Gandhi resorted to fasts and tours of disturbed areas to check it. On Jan. 30, 1948, while holding a prayer and pacification meeting at New Delhi, he was fatally shot by a Hindu fanatic who was angered by Gandhi's solicitude for the Muslims. After his death his methods of nonviolent civil disobedience were adopted by protagonists of civil rights in the United States and by many protest movements throughout the world.

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For me it is Swami Vivekananda.My dp itself revals it.

mine would be lenith lol

I really admire Gandhiji as the ideal person.

"Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood, walked upon the earth ". -ALBERT EINSTEIN

Mohandas was the name given to the youngest child of Karamchand and Putlibai Gandhi, a highly respectable and prominent family of Porbandar. Mohandas was a product of the Alfred High School in Rajkot. After completing his school at Rajkot, he joined Shamaldas College at Bhavnagar. In 1888 he sailed for London to study law and returned in 1891 to start practice in Bombay and Rajkot.

Gandhiji left India for South Africa to take up a job as a legal advisor. However, destiny had charted a different course for him. His sensitive mind repelled the subhuman treatment meted out to the Indians and the Black natives of South Africa by the British. He decided to protest against and launched a Satyagraha. It was then that Satyagraha became his novel method of peaceful agitation.

On his return from South Africa to India, Gandhiji immediately plunged himself into the freedom struggle setting up a satyagraha ashram in Kochrab, a suburb in Ahmedabad. The ashram was later shifted to Sabarmati in 1917. It was from here that the Mahatama and his followers led various satyagrahas the most notable being the historic Dandi March in 1930, a journey that ultimately culminated into the end of the British rule.

Gandhi was the man who stirred to action millions of people and unfettered the shackles of the British Empire.

Ahmedabad, Porbandar, Rajkot and Bhavnagar are the cities associated with the father of the nation as he came to be known after Independence.