Keay's elegant book reaches the parts other histories ignore
Is it a time, a place, a culture or a look; or does being Indian have to do with intensity?
The Indian state might have become less a master and more a servant of the Indian people and the hierarchies in the society might have become less steep.
The Mahatma's attachment to a beautiful Bengali woman threatened his marriage, reveals his grandson.
How would he reconcile support for a bloody war with ahimsa?
Name-calling, intimidation and ham-fisted use of state repression—India is under siege from a few driving a majoritarian agenda. Progress will come only when citizens from dominant groups recognise the equal rights of all minorities and then force change from within.
Mahatma Gandhi embraced those who differed with him as he knew it's only human to be imperfect, writes Bapu's grandson and historian Rajmohan Gandhi
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