“ Should I fight for my rights or go back to India, or should I go on to Pretoria without minding the insults, and return to India after finishing the case? It would be cowardice to run back to India without fulfilling my obligation.” -The Story of My Experiments with Truth by M.K. Gandhi.
The year 2018 marks the 125th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s first act of civil disobedience, which eventually led to the formulation of his Satyagraha philosophy of peaceful resistance against the British Raj. Pietermaritzburg Railway Station in South Africa became a part of that history 125 years ago when a newly qualified lawyer, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, arrived in that country for a year for representing a litigation of a trader in a commercial dispute.
2018 is a significant year for India-South Africa relations too as it also marks the 25 years of the establishment of diplomatic relations and the....
