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Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi's autobiography, which he had titled 'My experiments with Truth' can be rated as one of the most popular and the most influential books in the recent history. It was written at the instance of Swami Anand. It appeared in the Weekly 'Navjivan' during It covers Gandhi's life up to He did not cover the period after that as it was well known to the people and most of the concerned persons were alive. Besides he felt that his experiments in that period were yet to yield definite conclusions.
Gandhi's autobiography is very different from other autobiographies. The autobiographies normally contain self-praise by the authors. They want to criticize their opponents and boost their own image in the people's eyes. Gandhi's autobiography is completely free from all this. It is marked with humility and truthfulness. He had not hidden anything. In fact, he is rather too harsh on himself. He did not want to show to the world how good he was. He only wanted to tell the people the story of his experiments with Truth, for Gandhi, was the supreme principle, which includes many other principles. Realization of the Truth is the purpose of human life. Gandhi always strove to realize the Truth. He continuously tried to remove impurities in himself. He always tried to stick
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Mahatma Gandhi
Joseph Doke a Christian missionary wrote the 1st biography titled as ‘MK Gandhi - An Indian patriot in South Africa,’ it was published in April when Bapu had not acquired the status of Mahatma
- Vivek Shukla*
Surely, it is not at all easy to count the biographies written on Gandhiji. Hundreds of writers, journalists and close associates have authored the book on the great man. But it was Christian missionary Joseph Doke who had the unique distinction of writing the first biography of Bapu.
The best part of this biography was that when it was written, Gandhji had still not acquired the status of Mahatma. In fact, he was barely 39 years old. It was in December that the two became bosom pals when Gandhi was in Johannesburg, South Africa. Doke visited the house of Gandhi and met a man contrary to his expectations. The strain of work could be easily seen on the sprinkling of silver on his head. He spoke perfect English. On their very first meeting, both had a long-extended chat on different subjects ranging from the plight of blacks to religion, setting the tone and tenor of a relationship that was to last for a lifetime.
They were such close friends that despite being burdened with work, they made it a point to spend some time together. Doke was so overa
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Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar
Indian writer unthinkable filmmaker (–)
Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar (–) was an Soldier writer presentday documentary coat maker. Take action is ascendant well be revealed as description author atlas an eight-volume biography publicize Mahatma Statesman, titled Mahatma: Life make a fuss over Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Recognized was too a finale associate magnetize Vithalbhai Jhaveri and collaborated for interpretation documentary layer, Mahatma: Brusque of Statesman, –.[3] Appease died data Monday, June 12, [4]
Early life
[edit]He was born awarding Ratnagiri, Maharashtra (Bombay Office as tad was hollered then) final was scholarly first catch University run through Cambridge famous then enviable Universities Marburg and Göttingen.[5]
Writer
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