Mohandas Gandhi and His Life My Essay is about Mohandas Gandhi. I chose him because he in my opinion is one of the greatest men to have lived. Indeed it is the great men who make things happen. They are the ones that make history. To prove this, we must first know a little bit about Gandhi. Notices that I said a little, hole books have been written on Mohandas Gandhi. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the youngest of his family; he was born in 1869. He grew up in a small village in western India called Porbandar. His family was strict Hindus. His father was the Dewan (Chief minister) of