Using information from the lesson mahatma gandhi pushed out of train how did gandhiji feel when he was thrown out of the train write his feelings in the form of a diary entry
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7 June, 1893
Pietermaritzburg
I was travelling in the first-class carriage and was on my way to Pretoria. Just before Pietermaritzburg, a white gentleman sitting opposite me, raised objection to my presence in the compartment. He was agitated and asked me to move to the last compartment in the train, though I held a valid first-class ticket. Soon people gathered around me and the train ticket conductor was called in. They were unanimous in their decision that, I should not be sitting in the first-class compartment.
When the train stopped at Pietermaritzburg station, suddenly some people roughed me up, seized me and threw me on to the cold platform outside. The humiliation and cold, made me shiver. I somehow managed to reach the waiting room, at first feeling very bad at having been insulted. But slowly, a fire started burning within me, to fight this injustice. Injustice and discrimination against coloured people. I decided to stay on in South Africa and fight.
Today I read about Mahatma Gandhi’s bitter experience when he was travelling by train in South Africa.
It was June 7, 1893 and young Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi boarded the 1st class compartment of a train with valid ticket.
But the conductor and his European co-passengers insisted him to shift to the 3rd class compartment, only because of his skin colour.
When he refused to get up, they forcibly threw him out with his luggage.
He felt insulted and resolved to put an end to the miseries of his countrymen at the hands of white Europeans.