Another form of turmoil is taking place in Scotland as the Scots will vote in a referendum on whether to break away from UK. In Spain, Catalonia is thinking of leaving the nation.
Why these perpetual chaos and discontent?
Many years ago in India, a man named Mahatma Gandhi waged a war of silence. He used peace to get peace. He employed non-violent civil disobedience to protest against British rule and taxes.
Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability but above all for achieving Swaraj or self-rule.
Gandhi emerged victorious, because in 1947, England gave India independence.
No lives were lost in this peaceful revolt, except for Gandhi's when an assassin put three bullets into his chest at close range.
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