The new biography on Gandhi ji - Mohandas - A True Story of a Man, his People and an Empire brings in light a new aspect of his life...which was unknown till now.
The book written by his grandson Rajmohan Gandhi says that when Gandhi was 50 and Sarla Devi was 47, Gandhi had fallen for her. Sarla was neice of Ravindra N Tagore. He found a very intellectual and promising soul mate in her. But then his son Devdas, his future father-in-law Rajgopalacharya, Gandhi’s secretary Mahadev Desai and Gandhi’s nephew and others challenged Gandhi to return to his commitment and to end this affair that he was having with Sarla Devi.
And to Gandhi’s credit, he had the strength to end that relationship, which had seemed a promising one to him and which had an aesthetic element.
1 comment:
hey nisha..thats a nice find.
probably that was not "an experiment wiht truth" that why not in the book :)
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