• the Indian cricketer Bapu Nadkarni got the nickname Bapu—literally, father, and Mahatma Gandhi's sobriquet—for the curious reason that he used to wear loincloths (langotis) instead of modern underwear?
• portions of Chicago's Devon Avenue have been renamed in honor of Golda Meir, Mahatma Gandhi, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and Sheik Mujib?
• Naseeruddin Shah could not bag the title role in Gandhi, but later had opportunities to portray the Mahatma in a play and in a film?
• the Gujarat Vidyapith was founded in 1920 by Mahatma Gandhi as a means to establish an education system for all Indians free of British rule?
• the Kashi Vidyapeeth university in Varanasi was founded on Mahatma Gandhi's principle of Indian self-reliance through the boycott of colonial institutions?
• the great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, Leela Gandhi, is a senior lecturer at La Trobe University in the English program?
• the Indian Opinion was founded by Mahatma Gandhi and served as the main vehicle for the Indian civil rights struggle in early-20th century South Africa?
• Kasturbhai Lalbhai represented the mill-owners when Mahatma Gandhi undertook his first ever fast for a political cause in support of the mill workers during the 1918 Ahmedabad strike, but later became Gandhi's staunch follower?
• Abbas Tyabji (pictured with Mahatma Gandhi), respectfully called the "Grand Old Man of Gujarat", was chosen at age seventy-six by Mahatma Gandhi to take over leadership of the Salt Satyagraha upon Gandhi's arrest in May, 1930?
• Joan of Arc and Mahatma Gandhi were protagonists in Clone High?
• Indian anthropologist Nirmal Kumar Bose, also a scholar on Mahatma Gandhi, did not agree with Gandhi's practice of active sexual celibacy?
• Mahatma Gandhi stayed at the house of publisher and journalist G. A. Natesan during his first visit to Madras on returning from South Africa in 1915?
• Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned in the Belgaum Fort (pictured) during India's struggle for independence?
• Washington State politician Vic Meyers once showed up for a candidates' forum dressed as Mahatma Gandhi and leading a goat?
• Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar (pictured) composed Mahatma Gandhi's favourite devotional song, "Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram", which was sung daily during the salt march to Dandi?
• Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a colleague of Mahatma Gandhi, was hailed as an example of pacifism in Islam for his leadership of non-violent resistance?

Facts on topics related to Mahatma Gandhi

Indian independence movement

• Indian independence activist and Managing-Director of The Hindu from 1905 to 1923, Kasturi Ranga Iyengar, was a brother of Anglophile Indian civil servant S. Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar?
• Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned in the Belgaum Fort (pictured) during India's struggle for independence?
• British lawyer and activist of the Indian independence movement Eardley Norton was instrumental in establishing an UK-chapter of the Indian National Congress?
• Amar Kutir in West Bengal, India, once a place of refuge for independence movement activists, has been turned into a society for the promotion of arts and crafts?
• Amrutanjan Healthcare Limited, an Indian pharmaceutical company specializing in Ayurvedic balm for headaches and cold, was founded by freedom fighter Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao?
• Baba Kanshi Ram wore only black clothes from 1931 to 1943 in support of Indian independence, which earned him the sobriquet of Siahposh General or General in Black?
• Joseph Baptista coined the phrase "Swaraj is my Birthright" that was made popular by Lokmanya Tilak during the Indian independence movement?
• in his later years, Indian journalist C. Karunakara Menon was detested by the extremists of the Indian independence movement as well as the Government of British India?
• the Tamil film Thyagabhoomi is the only Indian film banned by the British Raj for propagating the cause of India's freedom struggle?
• wearing the Gandhi cap became a steadfast tradition during the Indian independence movement that is continued by Indian politicians to this day?

Gandhi

• Gandhi biographer Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar, a student of Eisenstein, is considered to be one of the pioneers of documentary film making in India?
• the founder of the Caucasus branch of the Qadiriyyah Tariqah, Kunta-haji (pictured) is often referred as the "Chechen Gandhi" because of his doctrine of nonviolence?