A Quote by Narendra Modi
Mahatma Gandhi never compromised on cleanliness. He gave us freedom. We should give him a clean India.
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My grandfather, or Nana Ji, as we called him, was a family legend. Amarnath Vidyalankar spent his life fighting for India's independence, which included spending four years in prison in Mahatma Gandhi's movement. I still remember the conversations we had together, many of them while playing chess.
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