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| Original Title: | The Life of Mahatma Gandhi |
| ISBN: | 0451627423 (ISBN13: 9780451627421) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://wikilivres.info/wiki/index.php/Mohandas_K._Gandhi |
| Characters: | Mahatma Gandhi |
Louis Fischer
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 4.11 | 2642 Users | 177 Reviews
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| Title | : | Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World |
| Author | : | Louis Fischer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | December 7th 1982 by Signet (first published January 1st 1950) |
| Categories | : | Biography. Nonfiction. History. Cultural. India. Philosophy. Spirituality. Religion |
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Gandhi: The ObserverTo change something you love is the hardest. It requires you to set aside your love for the thing and be objective. Real change cannot be imagined otherwise. My favourite description of Gandhiji’s uniqueness of vision comes from Naipaul.
Naipaul says that Gandhi saw India like no other, he observed critically, with an impartial, almost colonial eye. And then he acted on them. And this is what made his vision of India so revolutionary. He questioned things that were taken for granted, things that were assimilated into our Idea of India.
Mohandas Gandhi: Mahatma, great-souled, father of the nation, deified, his name given to streets and parks and squares, honoured everywhere by statues, his portrait garlanded in every pan-shop, hung in hundreds of offices, bare-chested, bespectacled, radiating light and goodness, his likeness so familiar that, simplified to caricature and picked out in electric lights, it is now an accepted part of the decorations of a wedding house... he is nevertheless the least Indian of Indian leaders.
He looked at India as no Indian was able to; his vision was direct, and this directness was, and is, revolutionary. He sees exactly what the visitor sees; he does not ignore the obvious. He sees the beggars and the shameless pundits and the filth of Banaras; he sees the atrocious sanitary habits of doctors, lawyers and journalists. He sees the Indian callousness, the Indian refusal to see.
Why, for instance, was Gandhi so obsessed with human waste?
This is Naipaul's explanation:
It is a correct emphasis, for more than a problem of sanitation is involved. It is possible, starting from that casual defecation in a veranda at an important assembly, to analyse the whole diseased society. Sanitation was linked to caste, caste to callousness, inefficiency and a hopelessly divided country, division to weakness, weakness to foreign rule. This is what Gandhi saw, and no one purely of India could have seen it.
No Indian attitude escapes him, no Indian problem; he looks down to the roots of the static, decayed society.
And the picture of India which comes out of his writings and exhortations over more than thirty years still holds today: this is the measure of his failure, and ours…
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In a time when people are not leaving any stone unturned to demonize Mahatma Gandhi all due to fake news fed to them via WhatsApp messages and Facebook posts,it becomes all the more necessary to read about the man. The most extensive biography about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi or Bapu. This book is in three sections first deals with the birth, schooling,family,his going to law school,his time in South Africa and his rise to fame. Second section deals with hisGandhi: The ObserverTo change something you love is the hardest. It requires you to set aside your love for the thing and be objective. Real change cannot be imagined otherwise. My favourite description of Gandhijis uniqueness of vision comes from Naipaul.Naipaul says that Gandhi saw India like no other, he observed critically, with an impartial, almost colonial eye. And then he acted on them. And this is what made his vision of India so revolutionary. He questioned things that were taken for
An insightful read into the life of one of the most prominent figures of the 20th century and "the spokesman for the conscience of all mankind". Through superior moral example alone, Gandhi has led arguably the most well known and successful display of passive resistance in history. One can't help but to think there is a lot to be gleaned from the story of this extraordinary individual - and this book does not disappoint in confirming that.
Fischer writes about the personal, religious, and political life of Ghandi. considering Ghandi's incredibly full life, focusing solely on any one of these aspects would have made a great read. But you get all of it in this beautiful biography. Having contributed much towards creating post-war India, some important modern Indian history is inevitably covered. How to view Ghandi? Other great/famous polotical leaders/dictators I've read about could have been replaced by other political leaders:
Gandhi is a Great of the 20th century. This book is more personal as the author had met Gandhi its focus is on Gandhi the man. It cites his speeches and how Gandhi influenced events around him. Gandhi was a doer and the method and means were everything.Compare Gandhi with the rise of communism (Lenin-Stalin) of the same time period and there is no doubt who and which approach is the more admirable and humane. Marxism-Leninism led to the death of millions.The book describes many aspects of not
Admittedly I have a very poor memory. I read books and then what seems like just minutes later most of the information which had so thoroughly engrossed me is erased from my mind. However, Louis Fischer's book and, more so, Gandhi's life so captivatingly described therein, contains scenes, sayings, concepts, and descriptions which I'm sure will stay with me forever: In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. Nor could
Over all I am not too pleased with this book. I'm very interested in biography and and pretty anything in that category but when I started reading this book I knew it was a mistake. Even the beginning of the book was boring. I read the first 100 pages and didn't like it. The reason I read that many pages was I was waiting for the book to get interesting but frankly it didn't. It had very small print that hurt my eyes and along with that it was flat out boring. There wasn't any cool or
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