Cunxin li biography of mahatma gandhi
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The political map of the world has changed dramatically since his time, the economic scenario has witnessed unleashing of some disturbing forces, and the social set-up has undergone a tremendous change. “Mao’s Last Dancer” was made into a blockbuster film in 2009 and won several international prestigious awards. He was 11 when he left home to begin a seven-year harsh training regime from 5.30 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week at the Beijing Dance Academy.
This period in prison was of bereavement for Gandhiji. On 15 August 1947, when India became independent, free from the British rule, Gandhiji fasted and prayed in Calcutta.
On 30th January 1948, Gandhiji, on his way to the prayer meeting at Birla House, New Delhi, fell to the bullets fired by Nathuram Vinayak Godse.
As observed by Louis Fischer, “Millions in all countries mourned Gandhi’s death as a personal loss.
After two days he sailed for India.
He made unsuccessful attempts to establish his legal practice at Rajkot and Bombay. In 2012, Li followed his dance passion and became the fifth Artistic Director of Queensland Ballet in Australia. Same year he started his weeklies Young India in English and Navajivan in Gujarati.
In 1921, Gandhiji took to wearing loin cloth to identify himself with poor masses and to propagate khadi, hand spun cloth.
Li’s Autobiography, “Mao’s Last Dancer”, was published in 2003 and immediately hit the top of Australia’s best sellers list. At Dandi Gandhiji picked up handful of salt thus technically ‘producing’ the salt. He united the Indians settled in South Africa of different communities, languages and religions, and founded Natal Indian Congress in 1893.
They married in 1987, and in 1995 moved to Melbourne with their two children where Li became a principal dancer with the Australian Ballet.
At age 35, Li started to plan his next career after dancing. It was hoped that his (Mohandas’s) going to England and qualifying as a barrister would help his family to lead more comfortable life.
He sailed to England on September 4, 1888 at the age of 18, and was enrolled in The Inner Temple.
Nearly 23 thousand people were imprisoned that year. He was discovered by Ben Stevenson, one of the world’s most respected teachers, choreographer and the Artistic Director of the Houston Ballet as part of the first US cultural delegation to communist China. When British Government ordered Gandhiji to leave Champaran, he defied the order by declaring that “British could not order me about in my own country”.
Once he found his passion, he worked hard and gave his all. He founded Indian Opinion, his first journal, in 1904 to promote the interests of Indians in South Africa. On August 29, 1931 Gandhiji sailed to London to attend Round Table Conference to have a discussion with the British.