Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi anabadwa mu 1869 ku Porbandar, India. Kusukulu, aphunzitsi ankanena za iye motere: Anaphunzitsidwa monga loya, Mahatma anakhala zaka 20 ku South Africa asanabwerere ku dziko limene panthaŵiyo linali dziko la India. Malingaliro ake a zionetsero zopanda chiwawa adzakhala chida cha akapolo padziko lonse lapansi, anthu olimbikitsa anthu monga Nelson Mandela ndi Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Chitsanzo chapadera cha Mahatma Gandhi, bambo wa dziko la India, chalimbikitsa anthu mamiliyoni ambiri. anthu kuti akhulupirire ufulu, chilungamo komanso kusachita nkhanza.
Madzulo a tsiku lobadwa la Mahatma, pa Okutobala 2, tikupempha kukumbukira mawu anzeru a mtsogoleri wamkulu.