When It Comes to Businessmen Friends, Modi’s Gandhi Comparison Is Not so Flattering

My article on the recent reference to Mahatma Gandhi and Birla by PM Mr. Modi in The Wire:

https://thewire.in/history/when-it-comes-businessmen-friends-modis-gandhi-comparison-is-not-so-flattering

The article deals with the relationship Gandhiji shared with some of the  industrialists of the country.

The images below is that of Gandhiji at Birla house, in 1942. 

 Stafford Cripps with Mahatma Gandhi on the steps of Birla House, Delhi, 1942. Photo: WikiMedia Commons

Prayer meeting in Birla House. Photo: WikiMedia Commons. 

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Laxmi, Gandhiji’s adopted daughter, Part-2

In November 2015, I had posted a blog piece on Laxmi, Gandhiji’s adopted daughter- http://nandinikoza.blogspot.in/search/label/Adopted%20Daughter

This post generated some interest and a scholar- researcher Mr. James Takri, kindly shared with me further information on Laxmi including her photograph and her interview that he collected from National Gandhi Museum, New Delhi. Mr. Takri also brought to my notice an article on Laxmi published in outlook in the year 1998 by Saira Menezes – 

http://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/bapus-laxmi/204999

Besides the above material I also came across further reference on Laxmi in the following two books:

   1. Ved Mehta’s - Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles

    2. Arun and Sunanada Gandhi’s book with Carol Lynn Yellin titled – The untold story of Kasturba, Wife of Mahatma Gandhi

However for the issues of copy rights, the material in these books on Laxmi although very valuable cannot be reproduced here. I therefore share Laxmi’s interview and her photograph as collected from the National Gandhi Museum by Mr. James Takri for a wider readership.

 


 

Laxmi with Gandhiji. Source: National Gandhi Museum, New Delhi. As sent by Mr. James Takri

 For those who wish to read Laxmi's excellent interview to know about her as well as her life in the Gandhi ashram, get an idea of her role in the freedom struggle, imprisonment, her relation with Kasturba and Gandhiji, see the link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4f8XoBOnu_XaWlBY3pDN2N5OEU/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-C1gZtIF0Gi4kSmS-41eenw

I wish to specially thank Mr. James Takri for digging out this valuable information as well as for sharing it with me. I share the same for a wider readership.

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