Gandhi autobiography book review
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Amit Chaudhuri reviews the new critical edition of Gandhi’s autobiography.
An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth by M.
K. Gandhi and Tridip Suhrud. Yale University Press, 2018. 816 pages.
It’s generally foolhardy to write about Gandhi.
— Akeel Bilgrami
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SOMETIMES IT SEEMS THAT Gandhi, Nehru, Bose, and Ambedkar are India’s greatest novelists.
In using the word “novelist,” I’m referring to a figure who gives our world back to us, a world whose significance we then spend years trying to grasp and measure.
Gandhi autobiography book review
I mean someone who has an impact in both serious and popular domains. In that sense, the novelist is partly a figure of the imagination, produced by a mix of canonical judgment and contingent forces. The novelist is also, today, by definition global, and supremely exportable.
Just as other cultures have thrilled to artists of such disparate gifts as Dostoyevsky and Melville and Haruki Murakami, the educated Indian mid