Mahatma Gandhi · every age

What was Mahatma Gandhi doing at 51?

Thrown off a train at 24; beat an empire without violence

1. Sep 21, 1921

   First wore the loincloth, in Madurai

   A mark of identification with India's poor. He became leader of Congress that year.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

Portrait: Photo: Elliott & Fry (1931), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source