Bahuroopi gandhi biography

The manuscript of this book has been lying with me since1949.

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I read D. G. Tendulkar's manuscript of the Mahatma in 1948, just after I had left the work in Kasturba training camp of Bengal. I worked in a village. The villagers around me and the girl trainees, I noticed, knew very little about Gandhiji.

They observed Gandhi Jayanti, daily spun and prayed. Some had taken part in national movements and courted jail, but they did not know what Gandhiji's real contribution was.

Bahuroopi gandhi biography

May be I was wrong, but that is what I felt.

I still feel the same about many persons I come in contact with every day, some of whom are educated, all of whom abhor manual labour. I myself do not believe in the dignity of labour, but I know the drudgery of body labour.

And that's why I every day try to share some manual labour with servants, lest I develop the feeling that just by paying a few chips I can win a right to make others work for me.

I wanted to present Gandhiji as a willing shared i