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She also acted in a Kannada film Private Number directed by Anand Kumar (director) that never found a release.
Mahatma Gandhi
Early Life
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, in the present-day Indian state of Gujarat. Due to internal differences during the making of the film, producer Bhushan Kumar pulled the finances, dubbed the unfinished version, and sold the film directly to a television channel without the knowledge of the cast and crew.
Singh started shooting for her second film Mudh Mudh Ke Na Dekh Mudh Mudh Ke opposite Reshammiya which was shelved mid-way.
When a European magistrate in Durban asked him to take off his turban, he refused and left the courtroom. Instead, British forces imprisoned the entire Congress leadership, bringing Anglo-Indian relations to a new low point.
During its final phase in 1913, hundreds of Indians living in South Africa, including women, went to jail, and thousands of striking Indian miners were imprisoned, flogged and even shot. Niharika was selected for Berlinale Talents in 2016.
Singh started working as a model in 1999 when she first walked the ramp for a design institute in Dehradun.
He soon accepted a position with an Indian firm that sent him to its office in South Africa. On a train voyage to Pretoria, he was thrown out of a first-class railway compartment and beaten up by a white stagecoach driver after refusing to give up his seat for a European passenger. (Hons) at Shri Ram College of Commerce in New Delhi and continued taking modeling assignments alongside to earn a little income.
Niharika was featured in several print campaigns, fashion magazines, and music videos and decided to drop out of college and move to Mumbai to pursue a full-time career in the entertainment business in 2003.
Singh participated in Femina Miss India in 2005 and finished third, winning the title of Miss Earth India along with subtitles for Miss Photogenic and Miss Beautiful Hair.
She went on to represent India at Miss Earth 2005 held in the Philippines, appeared in several television commercials and ad campaigns for various brands across the country, and hosted a reality TV series Banungi Main Miss India with the Femina Miss India contestants of 2006.
Singh was featured in the Times of India's 2005 list of Most Desirable Women and continued her modeling career until she began getting offers to act in Bollywood films.
Niharika's film career began in 2006 when she signed a 10-film contract with Bollywood director Raj Kanwar under his banner Inderjit Films.
The films were never made and she remained locked in the contract until singer Himesh Reshammiya approached her to play the role of a haughty heiress opposite him in A New Love Ishtory to be produced by T-Series (company) directed by John Matthew Matthan.
Niharika attended an acting course with Barry John (theatre director) before filming A New Love Ishtory.
He particularly advocated the manufacture of khaddar, or homespun cloth, in order to replace imported textiles from Britain. Upon returning to India in mid-1891, he set up a law practice in Bombay, but met with little success. Along with his wife, Kasturbai, and their children, Gandhi remained in South Africa for nearly 20 years.
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In the famous Salt March of April-May 1930, thousands of Indians followed Gandhi from Ahmadabad to the Arabian Sea.
The march resulted in the arrest of nearly 60,000 people, including Gandhi himself.
Gandhi was appalled by the discrimination he experienced as an Indian immigrant in South Africa. He backed off after violence broke out–including the massacre by British-led soldiers of some 400 Indians attending a meeting at Amritsar–but only temporarily, and by 1920 he was the most visible figure in the movement for Indian independence.
Leader of a Movement
As part of his nonviolent non-cooperation campaign for home rule, Gandhi stressed the importance of economic independence for India.
Invested with all the authority of the Indian National Congress (INC or Congress Party), Gandhi turned the independence movement into a massive organization, leading boycotts of British manufacturers and institutions representing British influence in India, including legislatures and schools.
After sporadic violence broke out, Gandhi announced the end of the resistance movement, to the dismay of his followers.
He refrained from active participation in politics for the next several years, but in 1930 launched a new civil disobedience campaign against the colonial government’s tax on salt, which greatly affected Indian’s poorest citizens.
A Divided Movement
In 1931, after British authorities made some concessions, Gandhi again called off the resistance movement and agreed to represent the Congress Party at the Round Table Conference in London.
At the age of 19, Mohandas left home to study law in London at the Inner Temple, one of the city’s four law colleges. In 1919, Gandhi launched an organized campaign of passive resistance in response to Parliament’s passage of the Rowlatt Acts, which gave colonial authorities emergency powers to suppress subversive activities. His father was the dewan (chief minister) of Porbandar; his deeply religious mother was a devoted practitioner of Vaishnavism (worship of the Hindu god Vishnu), influenced by Jainism, an ascetic religion governed by tenets of self-discipline and nonviolence.
Arrested upon his return by a newly aggressive colonial government, Gandhi began a series of hunger strikes in protest of the treatment of India’s so-called “untouchables” (the poorer classes), whom he renamed Harijans, or “children of God.” The fasting caused an uproar among his followers and resulted in swift reforms by the Hindu community and the government.
In 1934, Gandhi announced his retirement from politics in, as well as his resignation from the Congress Party, in order to concentrate his efforts on working within rural communities.
महात्मा गाँधी की भारत वापसी
12 जून, सन् 1891 को आप भारत के लिए चल पड़े। यहाँ आकर उन्हें पता चला कि माताजी का स्वर्गवास हो गया। गाँधीजी रो पड़े। लन्दन में वे सपना देखा करते थे कि भारत लौटकर वे अपनी माताजी को बतायेंगे कि उन्हें दिया हुआ वचन निभाने के लिए गाँधीजी ने कितना कड़ा संघर्ष किया और यह सुनकर उनकी माताजी कितनी खुश होगी। गाँधीजी ने लिखा है, “पिताजी की मृत्यु से अधिक आघात मुझे माताजी की मृत्यु से पहुँचा।”
अब गाँधीजी बाईस वर्ष के युवक थे उनका पुत्र हीरालाल चार वर्ष का था। गाँधी जी बम्बई में अत्यन्त उत्साह के साथ वकालत आरम्भ की। परन्तु अदालत में जाकर उनकी जुबान नहीं खुलती थी। अपना प्रथम मुकदमा वे न चला पाये। उन्हें लगा, सारी अदालत घूम रही है।
अदालत में खड़े होते हुए ही पैर काँपने लगे, आँखों के सामने अँधेरा छा गया। हताश होकर बैठ गये और दलाल से बोले कि मुझसे पैरवी नहीं हो सकेगी। कोई दूसरा वकील कर लो। अपने व्यवसाय के प्रति बहुत निराश हो गए। उन्हें योग्य काम नहीं मिला। अन्त में वे राजकोट वापस लौट आये। वहाँ वकालत के लिए एक कार्यालय बनाया।
उन दिनों गाँधीजी के बड़े भाई पोरबन्दर के महाराज के सलाहकार थे। उन पर आरोप लगा कि उन्होंने किसी मामले में राजा साहब को गलत सलाह दी थी। इसका निर्णय ‘पॉलिटिकल एजेन्ट’ को करना था।
गाँधीजी जब लन्दन में थे तब इस ‘पोलिटिकल एजेन्ट’ से मिले थे और उससे मित्रता हो गई थी इसीलिए गाँधीजी बड़े भाई लक्ष्मीदास की इच्छा थी कि गाँधीजी अपने भाई की सिफारिश लेकर उसके पास जायें। यद्यपि महात्मा गाँधी की इच्छा नहीं थी फिर भी वे ‘पोलिटिकल एजेन्ट’ से मिले और अपने भाई का समर्थन किया। लेकिन चेतावनी दी कि इस प्रकार की विनती करना अयोग्य है।
फिर भी महात्मा गाँधी ने अपने भाई के प्रति समर्थन जारी रखा। इससे एजेन्ट परेशान हो गया और अपने नौकरों को आदेश देकर महात्मा गाँधी को दरवाजे की राह दिखायी। महात्मा गाँधी अत्यन्त लज्जित हो गये। वे अपमान की आग से जल रहे थे। इस कटु घटना ने उनके जीवन को पूर्णतया बदल दिया।
महात्मा गाँधी का स्वदेश – आगमन
दक्षिण अफ्रीका में 11 वर्ष बिताने के बाद आप फिर स्वदेश के लिए चल दिए। साथ में आपकी पत्नी कस्तूरबा भी थीं। गाँधीजी भारत आने से पहले गोखले से मिलना चाहते थे। जो उन दिनों लन्दन में थे। उन्होंने 18 जुलाई, 1914 को लन्दन होते हुए भारत आने का निर्णय लिया। किसी कारणवश गाँधीजी की गोखले से भेंट नहीं हो पाई।
अतः गाँधीजी कुछ दिन लन्दन रहकर भारत के लिए चल दिये और 19 दिसम्बर, सन् 1914 को भारत पहुंचे। भारत पहुँचकर आप सबसे पहले गोखले से मिलना चाहते थे, जो स्वदेश आ चुके थे। अतः गाँधीजी सबसे पहले पूना जाकर गोखले से मिले।
गोखले ने उन्हें सुझाव दिया कि आप दक्षिण अफ्रीका के फीनिक्स आश्रम की तरह एक आश्रम भारत में स्थापित करें तथा राजनीति में भाग लेने से पहले एक बार भारत भ्रमण करके लोगों को समझें। गाँधीजी ने गोखले के निर्देशों का सम्मान करते हुए कार्य करने का निर्णय लिया। गाँधीजी गोखले को अपना राजनीतिक गुरु मानते थे।
इसी बीच 19 फरवरी, 1915 को गोखले का देहान्त हो गया। उनके देहान्त से पूरे देश में शोक की लहर दौड़ गई। गाँधीजी को उनकी मृत्यु का इतना अधिक दुःख हुआ कि उन्होंने एक वर्ष तक नंगे पाँव रहने का संकल्प लिया।
गाँधीजी भारत भ्रमण करते हुए गुरुदेव रवीन्द्रनाथ टैगोर के शान्ति निकेतन गये। वहाँ के कलापूर्ण सादगी भरे जीवन का आप पर बहुत प्रभाव पड़ा। वहाँ से गांधीजी रंगून गये। रंगून से वापसी पर गाँधीजी गुरुकुल काँगड़ी हरिद्वार जैसी संस्था में गये जो उस समय भारतीय बच्चों का एक आदर्श शिक्षण-संस्थान था।
यहाँ पर स्वामी श्रद्धानन्द ने हरिद्वार में आश्रम बनाकर रहने का निमन्त्रण दिया। गुजरात से भी अनेक निमन्त्रण आये। अन्त में अपनी जन्मभूमि गुजरात में ही आश्रम स्थापित करने का निर्णय लिया।
Niharika Singh
Biography
Niharika Singh is an Indian film actress and producer.