Picture was taken in 1946 in India by Margaret Bourke-White who was sent there to cover a story about India’s independence. In order to let her take the picture, Mahatma Gandhi asked her to learn to use the spinning wheel first. Frustrated at the beginning, she learned to use it in the end.
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White
Source: life.com
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The title should be spelled as GANDHI
Thursday, June 14th, 2007 at 5:45 am"OMG, thanx.
Thursday, June 14th, 2007 at 11:21 am"Don’t forget to change your url…
Thursday, June 14th, 2007 at 1:01 pm"very nice
Friday, June 29th, 2007 at 2:43 pm"i was searching photos anything related to iraq war..
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 at 2:47 pm"ha!gandhi….u think he was some great monk…search for Quaid-e-Azam Muhammed Ali Jinnah.wen ppl tok abt indias independance they forget that gandhi never wanted india to be partitioned…it was US THE MUSLIMS WHO SACRIFICED and fought for our freedom and despite mr gandhis preventive measures we got it…
dun comment on things you dont know about
Are we remember mahatma in other days, except october 2, january 30?
Monday, October 1st, 2007 at 3:06 pm"i like it..it is amesing
Monday, October 1st, 2007 at 6:42 pm"@Arfa
for getting the partition done,no ’sacrifice’ was required…
Sacrifice came in the form of thousands of lives who were massacred during the partition…
Even after partition, when Pakistan became an Islamic nation, India remained a secular state…
And what have u gained by s-called freedom? A tortured community, which later got freedom from Pakistan and formed Bangaldesh? or ur dictator His Highness Gen. Musharaff?
Way to rip off a speech from malcom x like it was your own quincy....
Truthsayer, you live in cozzy little world. empowering the poor to feed the...
the photographer of this photo waited 2 hours to get the perfect shot. he...
My grandfather fought in that war and was there during the photo shot. Whe...
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