Dr Prannoy Roy talks to author and Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, Gopal Gandhi, on his book "Restless As Mercury", which talks about Mahatma Gandhi's early life. In the interview, the author sheds light on Mahatma Gandhi's formative years, his parents, his wife Kasturba Gandhi and his transition from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to the Mahatma.
Here are the highlights of Gopal Gandhi's interview to Prannoy Roy:
Author Gopal Gandhi speaks to NDTV about #MahatmaGandhi's early years pic.twitter.com/UK3ZTNI3l0
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Watch | "Mohandas describes himself, as a young boy, as having been a good boy, not a bright boy. But that word, good, this has sort of dropped out of current vocabulary. Nobody uses these words very often now": Gopal Gandhi, Author, on Mahatma Gandhi's early days pic.twitter.com/zq9P2qs19B
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Gopal Gandhi: A group of Indians, Pathans, who had joined the struggle because Gandhi had said, we should never give our fingerprints, they were dismayed and a little puzzled by this compromise. They said, yesterday you told us to join the struggle and never give fingerprints, and today you're saying we should give it voluntarily. It was too nuanced for them. Gandhi had come to a very finely nuanced compromise on principle. Coercion had been removed. But Mir Alam hit Gandhi on his head with a truncheon, and kicked him and left him for dead, because he felt Gandhi had betrayed the cause. And Gandhi says, very, very significantly, that as he fell, he remembers very dimly that as the blows started, "I uttered the words Hey Rama".
"Kasturba Gandhi went to jail with a batch of other women and her young son Ramdas, who's only 16": Author Gopal Gandhi pic.twitter.com/igUj4UjHc5
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Watch | "Mohan says, 'I was really afraid of the dark. I was afraid of creepy crawlies. And Kasturba was not, she was least afraid. She would go into the dark, unafraid of serpents or anything that she might come by'": Gopal Gandhi, Author, on his book 'Restless As Mercury' pic.twitter.com/BXnJzIGcYX
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Author Gopal Gandhi on #MahatmaGandhi's early years pic.twitter.com/NBgV2t1TGa
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Watch | "I wanted to see how the person who is born into very simple and ordinary circumstances, but with some extraordinary opportunities also, has a tussle with his conscience, with his ambitions about himself...": Gopal Gandhi, Author, on his book 'Restless as Mercury' pic.twitter.com/YZfaMplnnM
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