He walked 10 miles a day, staunchly followed a vegetarian diet and practiced rigorous fasting. He endeavoured to learn Latin and treated diseases by dietic modifications. The writer is led by a barrage of experiments ranging from elocution classes to purge his shyness and fear of public speaking, to shaking a leg on the dance floor, to taking up singing sessions. He reveals his personal life in a vivid fashion not making any attempt to camouflage the truth about himself, however bitter, from his reading audience. The words are stitched up in a facile tone gingered with grandiloquence. The book demonstrates his incredible humbleness. He himself acknowledges this right from the first page. This book will revolutionize your thinking and present Gandhiji as a man. School textbooks present him as faultless, almost divine. Every school going kid is taught to unthinkingly sing his praises. His autobiography offers the perfect opportunity to gaze into the life of an iconic leader whose humility is married to a charismatic persona.Įvery Indian knows about this great leader. This is a statement that begs to be investigated. It was with profound trepidation that I began typing the review of this intriguing book.
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