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Why Mahatma Gandhi is becoming popular in China
Why Mahatma Gandhi is
becoming popular in China
By Ankur Jain
For the first time,
Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi's own story of his life is to be
available in China.
The
Story of My Experiments With Truth, which has sold more
than 200,000 copies in India alone and has been translated in to some 35
languages, will now be translated in Mandarin to cater to what Chinese scholars
say is the "growing interest" in the leader in their country.
Five volumes of Gandhi's
selected works containing his writings on satyagraha [people's movement],
religion, politics and speeches, will also be translated into Mandarin.
"Gandhi's works have
largely not been available in Russia and China so far. We are really excited
with the growing interest about his writings in China," said Vivek Desai
of the Ahmadabad-based Navajivan Trust, the 84-year-old publishing house
founded by Gandhi which has published more than 300 volumes of the leader's
works.
Friday, January 31, 2014
Thursday, January 30, 2014
The Last Hours of Mahatma Gandhi
The Last Hours of Mahatma Gandhi
By Stephen Murphy
PUNCTUALLY at 3.30am on Friday, January 30, 1948, Mahatma Gandhi awoke to greet the last morning he would ever see.
He was in the tense atmosphere of Delhi, staying in a ground-floor guest room of Birla house, the mansion of industrialist and benefactor G. D. Birla located in Albuquerque Road. Gandhi had arrived in the strife-torn capital of newly independent India on September 9, 1947 from Calcutta, where he had performed a miracle of peace-making. By January 30, almost four months had passed since his 78th, and last, birthday. It was 12 days since the successful end of his fast to bring about a reunion of hearts in Delhi. But 10 days before, there had been an aborted attempt on his life during the evening prayer meeting at Birla House. With the situation in Delhi having stabilised, Gandhi was again looking to the future, but his life was in grave danger - and he knew it.
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