02-10-2018 :150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi A commemorative postage stamp

The Ollivant incident and the ordeals from Durban to Pretoria engendered violent thoughts in Gandhiji’s mind and there was a clash between violence and forgiveness. However when he read a book given by Tolstoy, he was influenced profoundly by it and learnt not to hate, not to hoard, not to kill and to love one’s enemies. The conflict in his mind thus, resolved itself against violence and Gandhiji went on to strongly believe that “Violence is the weapon of the weak, non-violence that of the strong”.