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When Mahatma Gandhi survived a lynch mob in South Africa
Updated On: 02 October, 2019 09:25 AM IST | New Delhi | IANS
Barrister Gandhi arrived in South Africa in 1893 to offer legal aid to Dada Abdullah in his business and within three years established himself as a political leader fighting against apartheid and for the interests of Indians in South Africa
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Mahatma Gandhi in an undated photo. Pic/AFP
New Delhi: Mob lynching, the scourge of India that has led to nearly 100 hundred deaths in the past few years, is hardly a new phenomenon. Around 125 years ago, a young Indian lawyer named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi faced a similar faceless and mindless mob in South Africa.
But unlike many in present-day India, he was lucky to have survived. Had he not, the world would have never known of Mahatma Gandhi.
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