Joseph lelyveld gandhi6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Gandhi arrived in South Africa on and left in 1914. ![]() Instead, our first glimpse of Mohandas Gandhi is in South Africa, where he arrives a few months short of his 24th birthday. Sorry to disappoint y’all but there’s nothing in the first chapter about Gandhi’s childhood, his parents, family, friends, school days, London days, his marriage or the setting of his birth-place Porbandar. Over the course of the next 10 days or so, we’ll take a dekko at each of the dozen chapters in the book. Great Soul has created such a ruckus in India that the book has already been banned in some Indian states like Gujarat. ![]() The book by Pulitzer Prize winner and former Executive Editor of the New York Times Joseph Lelyveld has already raised the hackles of many Indians, who, with little else to do, are in any case forever desperately scrounging for an opportunity to have their hackles raised. – Mohandas Gandhi, echoing words from a song by the poet Rabindranath Tagore, quoted in Great Soul by Joseph Lelyveld p.7īy now, even the dumbest of our many readers must surely have heard of the new biography on Gandhi with its suggestion that the Mahatma was an AC/DC. I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone, when the time comes. ![]()
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