Journalism of Courage
Every year on October 2, Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary is celebrated. At the heart of the celebration stands the leader whose ideologies and beliefs changed India, and whose personality intrigued biographers across ages to write about him. On this day, here are some books on him and one by him. (File)
In this memoir, Charles F Andrews detailed Gandhi's principles, and also provided a glimpse of the life he led. (Source: Amazon.in)
The legacy left behind by Gandhi has been evolving, and this book charts this change. (Source: Amazon.in)
Judith M Brown pens down Gandhi’s journey as a lawyer, filled with ups and downs in South Africa. The book is a detailed account of Gandhi’s career in advocacy as well as the racial attacks he was subjected to. (Source: Amazon.in)
Loius Fischer, historian and one of Gandhi’s closest friends, documented the leader's ethics and strategies employed by him to combat the British in his own way. The book was later adapted into a film, ‘Gandhi’ by Richard Attenborough. (Source: Amazon.in)
In his own words, Gandhi also wrote about his life, beliefs, principles. He did not deify himself, rather humanised his own journey. (Source: Amazon.in)
