Summary
EVEN in his own lifetime, it seems political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi feared his iconic status was in danger of overwhelming his actual achievements.
A year before his assassination, he complained that people were more interested in taking his photograph than debating his policies, saying: 'Who listens to me now?' So, perhaps he would be delighted about this new, three-part series in which journalist Mishal Husain, whose Muslim grandparents were living in India at the time of independence, tries to look back behind the idealised images and learn more about the man who took on the British empire with a radical campaign of non-violence.See the full content of this document
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Delving Into Gandhi's Past
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