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The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Gujarati: સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા, satyanā prayogo athavā ātmakathā, lit. 'Experiments of Truth or Autobiography') is the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, covering his life from early childhood through to 1921. It was written in weekly installments and published in his journal Navjivan from 1925 to 1929. Its English translation also appeared in installments in his other journal Young India.[1] It was initiated at the insistence of Swami Anand and other close co-workers of Gandhi, who encouraged him to explain the background of his public campaigns. In 1998, the book was designated as one of the "100 Best Spiritual Books of the 20th Century" by a committee of global spiritual and religious authorities.[2]
Starting with his birth and parentage, Gandhi gives reminiscences of childhood, child marriage, relation with his w
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Gandhi’s Closest Disciple Shares Insights and Joy
Reviewed by Jim Douglass
[dropcap]N[/dropcap]arayan Desai has written a four-volume biography of Mohandas Gandhi, My Life Is My Message, which is comprehensive, insightful, and joyful. What sustained the author in his 2300-page project was, he tells us in his preface, joy. He wrote his huge work “simply to share with readers the joy of being in Gandhi’s presence.”
In an earlier work, Bliss Was It to Be Young—with Gandhi, Narayan Desai shared his joy growing up as a child in Gandhi’s ashrams. As the son of Mahadev Desai, Gandhi’s secretary, and Durgaben Desai, an anchor to ashram life, Narayan as a boy tested Gandhi’s wit and patience on a daily basis. He grew in discipleship in his teens. Narayan worked with his father in Gandhi’s secretariat, where he helped type Gandhi’s letters. Gandhi trusted young Narayan to the point of assigning him to type an historic letter to Hitler.
Since Gandhi’s death in 1948, Narayan Des
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Mahadev Desai
Personal secretary of Mahatma Gandhi
Mahadev Haribhai Desai (1 January 1892 – 15 August 1942) was an Indian independence activist, scholar and writer best remembered as Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary. He has variously been described as "Gandhi's Boswell, a Plato to Gandhi's Socrates, as well as an Ānanda to Gandhi's Buddha".[1][2]
Early life
[edit]Mahadev Desai was born in an anavil Brahmin family[citation needed] on 1 January 1892 in the village of Saras in the Surat district of Gujarat to Haribhai Desai, a school teacher, and his wife Jamnabehn. Jamnabehn died when Desai was seven years old. In 1905, aged 13, Mahadev was married to Durgabehn. He was educated at the Surat High School and the Elphinstone College, Mumbai. Desai graduated with a BA Degree, and after earning his L.L.B in 1913 took a job as an inspector at the central co-operative bank in Bombay[citation needed]
Gandhi's associate
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