November 3, 2017 ▸ People, Religion

Episode 246: Gandhi: The Peace Warrior

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On this episode of The Sofa King Podcast, we look at the life of one of the most influential people of the modern world, Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was born to a small-time politician father and a very religious mother in India. His father had married twice but had his young wives die in child birth, and then a third marriage produced no children, so he married a fourth time, and Mahatma was the end result. Gandhi was a smart but quiet child; in fact, he was socially awkward and unable to make friends.

This is an odd thing for someone who came to publicly represent the largest nation on Earth, but even as a young lawyer fresh out of school, he couldn’t practice courtroom law because he was too shy to cross-examine witnesses. Eventually, he got hired as a lawyer in South Africa, and there he was shown racism against Indians in forms he’d never been aware of before. Over the years, he came to represent the downtrodden minorities in South Africa, leading peaceful demonstrations, and even working as a medic during a couple of wars.

The laws against Indians in Africa got worse and worse, and Gandhi started to fight harder and harder. Eventually, he returned to India where he turned his (newly found) fame as a political dissident against the British who controlled his home country. Witnessing slaughters against his people at the hands of the British and endless examples of racism now at home, Gandhi eventually guided Indians to quit their jobs, stop paying taxes, and grind the economic machine of India as a colony to a halt.

So how did this amazing man get the world’s largest super power to let go of its largest colony without ever firing a shot? How did involve the Russian, Leo Tolstoy? What was the Salt Act, and how did it lead to Gandhi becoming Time’s man of the year? Who assassinated him and why? What kind of kink sex acts was Gandhi in to, and how did he think it gave him more power? Listen, laugh, learn.

Gandhi Sex Madness: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/thrill-of-the-chaste-the-truth-about-gandhis-sex-life-1937411.html