The seller of the Gandhi items now wants them back. Amidst the welter of confusion that surrounds this entire episode, one wonders what the Mahatma himself would have made of it.
The elections are here. And despite the rhetoric, the NDA and UPA regimes remain virtually indistinguishable in their repudiation of the swadeshi ideal. But the political class alone is not to blame. Take the Nano car...
He was much more than a secretary to Gandhi. On various occasions he has been described as Gandhi's Boswell, a Plato to Gandhi's Socrates, as well as an Ananda to Gandhi's Buddha-- his relationship with Gandhi is a taxonomic puzzle.
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