Mumbai: Tushar Gandhi’s debut book Let’s Kill Gandhi attempts to clear misconceptions about Gandhi’s death.
Sarojini Naidu once joked that it cost the nation a fortune to keep Mahatma Gandhi in poverty. Indeed, the father of our nation has been a man of contradictions. The more we speak of him, the dichotomies in his persona get multiplied.
Yet, the man in a loincloth marching towards Dandi to break the Salt Act continues to hold us in his mystical grip.
Not surprisingly then, the crowd gathered at the launch of his great-grandson Tushar Gandhi’s book Let’s Kill Gandhi on Monday in Mumbai’s Oxford book store included people from all sections of the society.
Author Ruskin Bond was seen browsing through the children’s book section, while filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt churned out sound bytes by the dozen and Bhilare Guruji reminisced about the occasion when he saved the Mahatma’s life.
The book, formally launched by Bhatt, provides a detailed account of Gandhi’s life. Delving into the last years of the Mahatma’s life, it holds the police and intelligence agencies of that time responsible for the assassination.
While acknowledging the importance of the Mahatma’s philosophy, the author pointed out that it was equally essential to clear the misconceptions surrounding his death.
“I have not attempted to create history here. All that is mentioned in the book is backed by research and valid documents,” he said.
But one of the facts that came through quite clearly was that Tushar Gandhi does consider himself the heir apparent to Gandhi’s legacy and philosophies.
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