Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle of peace and the Father of
the Nation was born on 2nd October 1869 at Porbandar in Gujarat.
Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated on the very day every year as the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, Father of India.
In his autobiography My experiments with Truth Gandhi recalls that his childhood and teen age years were characterized by education in a local school, marriage to Kasturba at the age of
13 and an intrinsic love for ‘truth’ and ‘duty’.

