This is shamefully-careless sub-literacy. A non-profit organization misspelled his name in large type on the outside of an envelope soliciting money; they corrected it in a later mailing.

At least, that wrong initial "Gh" makes some sense; such spellings in some languages are far from rare. Some names begin with "Gh" (when written with our alphabet). However, Mohandas Gandhi's is not one of them. ("Mahatma" is not a name, really; it's an appellation/title of great respect, iirc meaning something like "Great soul".)

Point is, the majority of us are mis-taught so we're crippled -- simply blind to the details of particular spellings. (Can you spell "Harm*n K*rd*n", noted for quality audio)?

Another one: a famous U.S. brand of corn flakes for decades, starts "Kel...". How many letters are there in its fully-spelled name? Six? Wrong. How many times have you seen that name? A few thousand, maybe? How about an hotel chain, "Mar..."? It's like "Marion". Six letters? Seven? Nope.

Another reason for this problem is that many people spell the way others do, and rarely check to see whether a given spelling is correct. We have a written dialect-by-consensus distinguished by many misspelled words, but those are what many people think are correct. That dialect even includes a few non-words, such as "alot", not in any dictionary. Others are split into two, such as "intact", misspelled as "in tact".

I am so tired of seeing his name misspelled - though at least it's spelled correctly ONCE in the article! GANDHI, folks, please, not Ghandi!!!

I wonder what Ghandi would make of the fact that India which still has so much poverty is a nuclear power ?

"Indian Children Dress As Ghandi"
Will the real Ghandi sit down, and refuse to move.