Articles for Mahadev Desai

The Hindu Right Wing’s Attempt to Appropriate Gandhi, Ambedkar, and Bose Despite Their Despise for Sangh Parivar
2 years, 10 months ago

The Hindu Right Wing’s Attempt to Appropriate Gandhi, Ambedkar, and Bose Despite Their Despise for Sangh Parivar

The Hindu  

It is characteristic of upstarts andsocial climbers to drop names. This was in reference to Congress president Sitaram Kesri’s jibe that the BJP was trying to “hijack” Gandhi. If we understand the old basis of nationalism, then it will be clear that it is nothing but Hinduism.” The Times of India noted editorially on October 17, 1989: “Mr Advani, while …

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The man who chronicled Mahatma Gandhi
5 years, 5 months ago

The man who chronicled Mahatma Gandhi

Hindustan Times  

Mahatma Gandhi with Mahadev Desai at the All India Congress Committee meeting in Bombay, August 8, 1942, the day that the Quit India resolution was moved. Mahadev Desai — or Mahadevbhai as he was called — could not fulfil his lifelong desire to write Mahatma Gandhi’s biography because of his untimely death on August 15, 1942, aged 50, while imprisoned …

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A biographer’s journey: In search of the Mahatma
5 years, 5 months ago

A biographer’s journey: In search of the Mahatma

Hindustan Times  

Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru spinning, Delhi. Searching for materials previous biographers had not bothered to look for, I found one key file in the Uttar Pradesh State Archives in Lucknow, a dozen key files in the Maharashtra State Archives in Mumbai, and about 50 key files in the National Archives of India in New Delhi — some in the private …

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The diary of Mahadev Desai
10 years, 7 months ago

The diary of Mahadev Desai

The Hindu  

How much do we really know of Mahatma Gandhi? Mahadev Desai was Gandhi’s personal secretary from 1917 till his death in 1942. “The play draws on material from Mahadev Desai’s diaries, other historical documents and records, and innumerable conversations with people who were part of that era and who had many first-hand stories and anecdotes to share,” explains Jaimini Pathak. …

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