NEW BOOK PUBLISHED - Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948

NEW BOOK PUBLISHED

Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948

Written by: Ramchandra Guha

Pages: 1152 pages

Price : Rs. 999/-

Published by: Penguin Allen Lane

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About the Book:

The second and concluding volume of the magisterial biography that began with the acclaimed, Gandhi Before India: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential-and controversial-men in world history.

This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi’s arrival in Bombay in January 1915 and takes us through his epic struggles over the next three decades: to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India’s Hindu and Muslim populations, to end the pernicious Hindu practice of untouchability, and to develop India’s economic and moral self-reliance. 

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NEW BOOK PUBLISHED

Soul Force: Valliamma Found Herself No Longer a Child, Not Yet a Woman, But an Activist

Written by: Suzanne Franco
Pages: 428 pages

Price: Rs. 390/-

Published by: Notion Press, Inc.

About the Book:

An exemplary biography on Valliamma Mudailar, a fierce soul who was martyred in the passive South African liberation struggle.

Unlike most teenagers her age, in the face of danger and adversity, Valliamma Mudliar, showed no sign of fear.

Under the hardship of white oppression in South Africa during the early 1900's,

Valliamma and her Satyagrahi sisters are desperate to carry out their mission as they bravely march along endless dirt roads, pressing on across forbidden provincial borders. The Regime's brutal and unforgiving law enforcement waiting for them - weapons in hand.

"Valliamma, you do not regret having gone to jail?" Mohandas Gandhi asked the ailing girl. 

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New Book Published: Mahatma on the Pitch - Gandhi and Cricket in India

Mahatma on the Pitch
Gandhi and Cricket in India

Written By: Kausik Bandyopadhyay

First Published : October, 2017

Price : Rs. 395/-

Published by : Rupa & Co.

About the Book:
 

Did Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ever play cricket? Did cricket ever figure in the Gandhian world of thought? What were the views of the most important man in the history of India's freedom struggle on the game that dominates Indian national consciousness in the twenty-first century? Did he ever oppose the cause of cricket? Did cricket ever invoke Gandhi after his death?

These questions seem as remote as Gandhi's tryst with cricket! Mahatma on the Pitch tries to find answers to these apparently quirky questions by exploring the untold relationship between two of the most enduring phenomena of modern India: Mahatma Gandhi, arguably the greatest Indian icon of the twentieth century and Indian cricket, probably the most assertive Indian national emblem in the twenty-first-century world.

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New Book Published: The Gift of Anger

The Gift of Anger

Ten spiritual lessons for the modern world from my grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi

Written By: Arun Gandhi
First Published : 24th May, 2017

Price : Rs. 599/-
Published by : Penguin

About the Book:
 

"Anger is good. It is an energy that compels us to define what is right and wrong." - Mahatma Gandhi, to his grandson, Arun
The Gift of Anger illuminates ten vital, extraordinary life lessons taught to Arun Gandhi by his beloved grandfather. Told through the his moving, often irreverent, story of his years being raised at the iconic Sevagram ashram, Arun's charming memories of his grandfather are an engaging and often surprising read. They reveal a rare insight into Gandhi the man rather than just the icon, but throughout are balanced with the inspirational lessons themselves.

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New Book Published: Why Gandhi Still Matters: An Appraisal of the Mahatma's Legacy

Why Gandhi Still Matters: An Appraisal of the Mahatma's Legacy

Written By: Rajmohan Gandhi
First Published : 5th May, 2017

Price : Rs. 499/-
Published by : Aleph Book Company

About the Book:
 

Close to 150 years after he was born, how relevant is Mahatma Gandhi? In our country, he is revered as the Father of the Nation; his face still adorns currency notes, postage stamps and government offices; streets and welfare schemes continue to be named after him but has he been reduced to a mere symbol? Do his values, message and sacrifice have any meaning for us in the twenty-first century? In Why Gandhi Still Matters, the Mahatma's grandson and award-winning writer and scholar Rajmohan Gandhi, appraises Gandhi and his legacy by examining some of his most famous (and often most controversial) ideas, beliefs, actions, successes and failures.
 

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New Book Published: In the Footsteps of Mahatma... Gandhi and Sanitation

In the Footsteps of Mahatma... Gandhi and Sanitation

By: Sudarshan IyengarFirst Published : 2016

Price : Rs. 100/-Published by : Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, Soochna Bhawan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi  | Website: www.publicationsdivision.nic.in

About the Book:
 

"Cleanliness is next to Godliness." We can no more seek God's blessings with an unclean body than with an unclean mind. - Young India, November 19, 1925
This oft quoted saying of Mahatma Gandhi keeps coming back, to inspire and motivate. Gandhiji's devotion to a clean and healthy India, is brought out in this comprehensive title. Interwoven with quotes and photographs, this book gives an insight into Gandhiji's thoughts and writings on the importance of sanitation. 

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New Book Published: Gandhi Searches for Truth

Gandhi Searches for Truth

A Practical Biography for Children
 

(For the agegroup of 3 to 12 years)

By: Stephanie N. Van HookFirst Published : August 2016


To order copies online, please visit @ : www.amazon.in or at www.mettacenter.org

About the Book:

Gandhi Searches for Truth is subtitled, A Practical Biography for Children, and that is exactly what it is. It uses the lens of Gandhi’s search for truth to walk children through the spiritual highpoints of Gandhiji’s life and unfold its great significance, emphasizing  its power to inspire them in their own searches.  It therefore fills an important niche, on at least two levels: it is informative on one of the greatest, if not the greatest person of the 20th Century, which is covered very inadequately if at all outside of India (and not always with the needed sensitiveness anywhere).  It also inspires and empowers children, in the best Montessori spirit, which can be vitally needed in this dispiriting world.  As information it fills a space left by, for example, Sri Eknath Easwaran’s Gandhi the Man, which takes a similar spiritual approach but is designed for high-school children and adults.
 

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New Book Published / Review: The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi

The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi

Written by: Makarand R. Paranjapre

First Published : February 2015

Total Pages : 348 pages

Price : Rs. 327/-

Published by : Random House India Pvt. Ltd. Gurgaon 122 002, Haryana.

Email: contact@randomhouse.co.in.

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