Throughout the world, almost all nations will be celebrating from October 2 
this year the birth centenary of Mahatma Gandhi who is now universally 
recognised as the glorious symbol of truth and non-violence. Gandhiji was not 
only a great national leader who liberated India from foreign domination 
through a peaceful and bloodless struggle, but also a profound thinker who 
placed before the world certain eternal principles for the guidance of human 
relationship and international behaviour. He laid the greatest stress on the 
purity of the means for the achievement of noble ends. “The means may be 
likened to a seed, the end to a tree; and there is just the same inviolable 
connection between the means and the end as there is between the seed and 
the tree.”