Media are paying tributes to independence leader Mahatma Gandhi on his 144th birth anniversary and feel his teachings remain “compellingly relevant” in present-day India.
Gandhi – known as “the father of the nation” – spearheaded a non-violent campaign against the British Raj that culminated in India getting its independence in 1947.
Newspapers say the Gandhian values of peace and non-violence have not lost their meaning even 65 years after the leader’s death.