Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is revered in India as the Mahatma. In this session, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, talks the role MK Gandhi played in India’s struggle for freedom.
Gopalkrishna Gandhi is a former IAS officer and a noted author. Currently, he is a Distinguished Professor of History and Politics, at Ashoka University. His published works include Refuge, a novel; Dara Shukoh, a play in English; The Oxford India Gandhi (ed.); The Tirukkural, a rendering in contemporary English verse of G.U. Pope’s translation of the Tamil classic; Abolishing the Death Penalty; Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Restless as Mercury (ed.); I am an Ordinary Man: Gandhi (1914-1948) (ed.). He has also translated Vikram Seth’s novel A Suitable Boy into Hindustani.
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