Biography on gandhi ji and mahadev
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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 made India, Mahadev Desai made Gandhi
Aug 13, 2017 09:07 AM IST
For 25 years, Mahadev Desai was Mahatma Gandhi’s closest associate and confidant. Through this period, Desai meant more to Gandhi than Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel (a fact that Nehru and Patel knew and acknowledged)
India became independent on August 15, 1947. On the same day, five years previously, a great patriot died in prison. His name was Mahadev Desai, and he is known to history as ‘Gandhi’s secretary’, a description that scarcely does justice to his contributions to the making of the Mahatma or to the movement for freedom from British rule.
Desai was a lawyer by training and a scholar by temperament. In August 1917, shortly before he joined the Ashram, Gandhi told Desai that ‘I have found in you just the type of young man for whom I have been searching for the last two years.’ He had discovered ‘three outstanding qualities’ in him, these being ‘regularity, fidelity and intelligence
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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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