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Gandhi, Be the change you wish to see in the world
Books, literature, Quotes

Mahatma Gandhi

On October 2, 1869, Mahatma Gandhi was born in Porbandar, Gujarat — and the world has never been quite the same since. As India marks Gandhi Jayanti 2026, and the United Nations observes the International Day of Non-Violence, Words, Colours and Notes celebrates the life, writings, and enduring legacy of the man the Indian Constitution calls the Father of the Nation. From his formation in South Africa — where he forged satyagraha, the doctrine of non-violent resistance that would reshape political history — to the Champaran Satyagraha, the Salt March, and the Quit India Movement, Gandhi’s campaigns against British rule constitute one of the most consequential acts of moral imagination in modern history. We also explore his major writings: the radical political treatise of Hind Swaraj, the candid spiritual autobiography of The Story of My Experiments with Truth, and the decades of journalism in Young India and Harijan. Finally, we gather six of his most enduring verified quotes — drawn from authenticated primary sources, and with an important note on the most famous Gandhi misquotation in circulation. Whether you are returning to Gandhi or meeting him for the first time, this is an invitation to look past the icon and encounter the man. Continue reading Mahatma Gandhi

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Books, literature, Quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On August 28, 1749, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt am Main — and the world of literature has never quite recovered. Poet, playwright, novelist
, scientist, and statesman, he was the last true polymath of European letters: a writer whose output ran to more than 140 volumes and whose influence stretched from Darwin to Nietzsche, from Mozart to Thomas Mann. To mark the 277th anniversary of his birth — a date celebrated this year in Weimar with cultural events at the historic Goethe-Haus — we revisit the life and major achievements of one of world literature’s most indispensable voices. From the epistolary fever of The Sorrows of Young Werther and the philosophical grandeur of Faust to the founding Bildungsroman of Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and the enigmatic allegories of his shorter fiction, this is an invitation to meet — or rediscover — the writer George Eliot called “Germany’s greatest man of letters.” We also gather six of his most enduring quotes on life, art, trust, and the art of becoming. Continue reading Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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