Mahatma Gandhi News Digest, Germany : Issue for April 9 – 15, 2007
PARTITION ON STAGE
The Telegraph – India – by Khushwant Singh – April 14, 2007
The Partition of India in 1947 was a tragedy of a scale unknown in the history of mankind. Ten million people were uprooted from their homes to find new ones across borders. Hundreds of thousands were butchered in cold blood. Who was responsible? Name any of the leaders of the time and the verdict will be guilty, with the sole exception of Mahatma Gandhi. Leaders are presumed to have their hands on the pulse of the people. Either their fingers had gone numb and they did not feel how dangerously fast it was throbbing or they were blind to the consequences. The two men on top, Jawaharlal Nehru and M.A. Jinnah, believed that as soon as Partition was completed, peace would be restored and religious minorities in either country would be assured of safety of their lives and property. This did not happen. To this day, over half a century after the division, we continue to pay the price of their folly.
There is library full of literature on the Partition. Many novels, short stories and poems have been written on the subject. Many films have also been made on the theme. But, for the first time, a celebrated scholar of contemporary Indian history has tried to dramatize the event for the stage.
Shashi Joshi of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Shimla has tried her hand at play-writing. The result is The Last Durbar: A Dramatic presentation of the Division of India. She knows her subject and has made good use of authentic records of the proceedings. She has been sparing in the use of fictional mirch masala to spice up her dialogue. What is lacking is a sense of drama and suspense. To start with, you cannot have 89 characters in any stage play. The scene shifts from Delhi, Shimla to Karachi, Lahore and back to Delhi; from one home to another. Some acts last a bare two minutes: others go on for over 20. none of the characters really come alive not even the star player, Lord Louis Mountbatten. Maybe producers like Girish Karnad or Ebrahim Alkazi could re-mould it. It could certainly be put to good use in a film.
The task of dividing a subcontinent like India along communal lines was daunting, as every dividing line would leave millions of hapless minorities in the country where they felt insecure. This was most acute in the case of Sikhs, who would be split in two equal halves. Then there was the problem of 500-odd princely states, some of them, such as Hyderabad and Travancore, wanted to become independent. There were also Hindu dominated states like Junagarh, whose nawab wanted to accede to Pakistan, and Hari Singh of Kashmir, who could not make up his mind till Pathan tribals aided by Pakistan invaded his state. No one had much sympathy for the ruling princes, not even Mountbatten, who knew some as his friends. He described them as enlightened autocrats at the best, squalid degenerates at the worst….They are really a bunch of nit wits. It took a man like Sardar Patel, deputy prime minister and home minister, to bring them to heel as if they were his pet dogs.
The play ends with the Mountbattens bidding farewell to their huge domestic staff on the steps of the Rashtrapati Bhawan. I cannot think of such a tame ending to high drama.
Entirely unconnected with events covered by Shashi Joshi, there is a doggerel she quotes about the snobbery of the sahiblog which I was unaware of:
The men who live in Poona would infinitely sooner
Play single-handed polo, a sort of
Solo-polo
Than play a single chukka with a chap
Who isnt pukka.
Where there is no will
Cricket fans complained to God
Have we done a heinous sin?
We prayed to you day and night
Still our team did not win!
God laughed and gently said
I know you prayed and did pray
But how could your paper tigers win
When they didnt have the will to play?
Not for sale
An American MNC executive came to India and travelled by his own car from north to south, exploring business prospects. His car developed some trouble at Delhi and he went to the Jama Masjid looking for a mechanic who will be able to repair American cars. One mechanic assured him his safe journey upto Jaipur with his jogadh-type mechanism. At Jaipur, his car developed some problems again. This time too, another mechanic assured him with his own jogadh that he would reach Bhopal. Like that, he was able to complete his travelling schedule.
During his meeting with the prime minister, he offered to buy the Indian jogadh technology at a huge price. The PM refused his offer saying that jogadh technology was not saleable since his own government was running on that technology.
Making peace with environment
CNews – Canada – by Ajit Jain – April 13, 2007
Monk teaches link between Gandhi’s philosophy and climate change
Climate change has given Al Gore rock-star status.
Now the hot topic seems to be bringing Mahatma Gandhi back from the dead.
“Many people say Gandhi is outdated and out of time,” said Dr. Rama Singh, 62, a professor of biology at McMaster and founder of the Gandhi Peace Lecture at the university’s Peace Centre.
“It takes only one generation for people to forget somebody and one generation to reinvent him,” he said. “Gandhi is being reinvented now because of his validity in the modern age. He’s so much more valid today as people are looking for solutions to social problems.”
More and more people are getting alarmed with the changing climate and its larger adverse long-term consequences, making Gandhi’s philosophy so much more valid today, Singh said.
So Singh has invited Satish Kumar from England to speak next Thursday on “Gandhi and the Age of Climate Change.”
“It has to do with our lifestyle — what our relationship is to the planet … what the invited speaker will be talking about is violence, what we are doing to the climate, to the planet.”
Kumar is eminently suited to handle this delicate topic as he renounced the world and joined the wandering brotherhood of Jain monks, who won’t even hurt a fly or an insect knowingly.
At 18, Kumar became a campaigner for land reform, working to turn Gandhi’s vision of a renewed India and a peaceful world into reality.
He now lives in England, where since the 1970s “he has been the guiding spirit behind a number of ecological, spiritual and educational ventures,” Singh said.
McMaster started the Bertrand Russell Peace lecture in 1989.
“So, it occurred to me first in 1992 — why not have (a) lecture named after Gandhi, who was real and more appealing from the inside of your strength, within yourself?” Singh said.
‘DIRECT BEARING’
That’s how the annual Mahatma Gandhi Lecture on Non-violence began.
“As Canadians also usually think Gandhi only relates to non-violence in the strict sense,” Singh said, “it is necessary that Canadians know more about Gandhi and how his philosophy has direct bearing on the planet. Therefore, people interested in the environment should be reading about Gandhi.”
Gandhis grandson is new Chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith
GujaratGlobal.com – India – April 13, 2007
Ahmedabad – With West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi accepting the offer of Chancellorship of Gujarat Vidyapith, the institution set up by Gandhi is once again with the direct Gandhi connection. Gopalkrishna is the grandson of Gandhi and is the tenth chancellor of the Vidyapith.
Mahatma Gandhi was the first chancellor of the Vidyapith he had set up to provide education system alternative to the system of British. Against three R of the British, it was three H, Head, Heart and Hand with an emphasis on equipping students with the skills to generate employment potential.
Turning to the father
The Telegraph – India – by Uddalak Mukherjee – April 13, 2007
MAHATMA GANDHI: A HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY By Bidyut Chakrabarty, Roli, Rs 350
How does one go about writing the Mahatmas memoirs differently? Bidyut Chakrabarty, the author, dwells on this question at length and comes up with a plausible answer. This historical biography posits Mohandas Karam- chand Gandhi at the centre of the freedom struggle alright, but, unlike other works, it strives to acquaint the readers with major theoretical premises that examine Gandhi and his ideas. This, Chakrabarty claims, is the key element that makes his book stand out in the crowd of literary projects devoted to Gandhi.
Chakrabarty greatly admires Gandhis mobilization skills, and, quite justifiably, anoints him as a true leader of the masses. Gandhis interpretation of Indias colonial experience (The English have not taken India; we have given it to them), his conception of passive resistance drawn on soul force as a strategy to rid India of the British, his critique of industrial capitalism and a mechanized society and his vision of the future Indian State based on the principles of cooperative federalism are some of the aspects that Chakrabarty highlights in his attempt to uncover Gandhis politics.
Yet, it is the passages offering little-known facts about Gandhis fascinatingly contradictory persona that make the book interesting. Gandhi, despite his liberal political leanings, appeared to be conservative, almost dictatorial, in his private life. He resisted his wifes attempts to educate herself and wanted her to emulate the virtues of the mythical Sita. He was also a conformist in some ways. When Gandhi went to England for a degree in law, he not only got a three-piece suit tailored from Bond Street but also started taking dancing lessons and playing the violin. An experimentalist, he was forever willing to try out new things. Once, when told that non-vegetarian food would make Indians as strong as the British, Gandhi, a vegetarian, tasted meat. Later, he complained that he had heard a goat bleat in his stomach all through the night. The greatness of the man lay in his ability to metamorphose into a leader who fought and defeated an empire.
Those who have read their Gandhi would not be terribly excited by Chakrabartys claim of shedding light on the relatively unexplored dimensions of Gandhis life. The chapters offer nothing more than a synopses of Gandhi and his times, beginning with his early days in South Africa to the last two years of his life, during which, Gandhi, though marginalized in the Congress, had not lost his following among the ordinary people. The critiques of Gandhi by Rabindranath Tagore and B.R. Ambedkar two of his contemporaries cited by the author in one particular chapter, would, however, be useful to those who are interested in examining how great men influence, and, in turn, are influenced by one other.
Significantly, Chakrabartys tome, notwithstanding its claim to be different, shares a trait with many other works on Gandhi. None of them has been able to provide a satisfactory answer as to why Gandhi, during the closing years of his life, found himself marginalized in the Congress, something which led him to grudgingly accept the partition of India.
There is something curious about the preface though. Here, the author has declared that his book is a critical Gandhian response to those who tend to belittle the academic feats of any kind by referring to their pipe-line publications. It seems that the Mahatma can still be useful in a myriad ways, even during these distinctly unGandhian times.
A documentary film on Tibetan freedom struggle with Dr. Mahesh Yadav’s own blood
Phayul.com – India – April 12, 2007
Dr. Mahesh Yadav, a very active Pro-Tibet activists and founder of ‘Mahatma Gandhi Tibet Freedom Movement’ who recently accused Chinese hand behind the LeT threats to H.H. the Dalai Lama.During Chinese President Hu Jintao recent visit to India he led the demonstration and burnt posters of Hus. Besides, he has been touring all over the Indian Cities for many years to gain support and spread Tibet issue through blood campaign.
Today, during inaugural function of Symposium on Tibetan History and cultural in the contemporary world; challenges and opportunities at Tara Singh Auditorium Delhi University, Mr. Tempa Tsering, Kalon of DIIR, Claude Arpi- Pioneer columnist, Prof. Vijay Kapur FMS Delhi University,Mr. Tsering Dorjee- Coordinator(ITCO) and others formally release the poster of his forthcoming documentary film, My Ideal H.H. the Dalai Lama: A True Gandhian, which is base on an ordinary Indian man who strive hard with constancy in the freedom struggle of Tibetan with his unique way ,blood campaign, with his own blood for more than 11 years and would be releasing on 6th July, 2007 on birthday of His Holiness. The duration of the documentary is only 45 minutes long and has been made keeping in mind the growing global acceptance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama as the preacher of Peace, Humanity and Non-Violence. Through this documentary he appeal worldwide to support the Tibetan freedom movement. He wants to give the film for free distribution and screening worldwide as his another unique campaign.
Dr. Mahesh Yadav appeals for any contribution and sponsorship of the free distribution of this documentary.
Contact No: +91 (0)9303116485, E-mail: tibet_freedom_movement@yahoo.co.in
Business beyond profits
Domain-b.com – Australia – by Stephen Manallack – April 12, 2007
If business is to be defined by the narrow value of profits, then it will never win the trust of the community and in the long-term it needs this trust to make the profits, says communications consultant Steve Manallack*, CEO, Australia India Business Council.
Brand experts and advertising gurus tell us that “caring is commercial”, and when inspirational leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi urged us to aim for complete harmony of thought, word and deed, he was outlining a strongly commercial value system for business, but this has not changed the behaviour or profile of many business leaders.
The problem of poor image for business continues to grow, as Mr Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of The Aditya Birla Group, has pointed out. “The world of business today is going through a crisis of trust, where the credibility of business leaders and the legitimacy of business organisations are subjected to questioning, ” he says.
India’s first major multinational company, The Aditya Birla Group has over 72,000 employees sourced from over 20 nationalities. The company produces viscose stable fibre, cement, metals, branded apparel, chemicals and is the number two private sector insurance company and fourth largest asset management company in India.
Mr Birla knows that “caring is commercial” and he puts it this way “Once again, people are searching for the soul of the corporation.”
One of the positive impacts of a values based business is in the performance of people. Again, Mr Birla highlights this, “People contribute when they relate to an organisation, and they relate when they understand the organisation. And people understand an organisation through its values, by experiencing the culture that the values create and by using the systems and processes that the values define.”
As the Indian economy unleashes immense opportunities for business growth, it is important that beacons like Mr Birla shine on the leadership and values opportunities that can grow at the same time. In fact, these can underpin long-term success for Indian business.
For example, on business television we see a tough CEO fronting an aggressive media at an annual meeting and declaring in no-compromise tone, “Our task it to manage the business to provide maximum return for our shareholders – end of story”. But is it? If business is to be defined by the narrow value of profits, then it will never win the trust of the community – and in the long-term it needs this trust to make the profits.
To paraphrase one of Gandhi’s wonderful quotes, when hypothetically asked today what he might think about Western business ethics, would he again say, “I think it would be a good idea”.
What could Mahatma Gandhi offer to the modern debate about leadership and values? First he would be a strong advocate for applying your ethics to all parts of life, with no exceptions. That is, business is no different from your life in community or family, so apply the same ethics.
Gandhi would stand today for complete honesty in business, for generating good profits but at the same time giving back to the community in which you operate. He would regard business very much as a service to the community, not merely a generator of windfall profits.
He would also urge business to bring people together and to foster community. He would probably be suspicious of many multinationals and you could imagine him campaigning on contemporary environmental issues, pointing out with great passion that business needs to be a friend of the earth.
Finally, we know that Gandhi would dislike much modern advertising, advocating instead that business does not manipulate and never deceive via advertising and marketing.
This caring approach to leadership is often seen in the West as too soft, but it can have commercial outcomes – a survey of 7,500 workers by US firm Watson Wyatt found real dollar benefits within caring organizations: highly committed employees produce a 112 per cent three year total return to shareholders, whereas those with low employee commitment returned 76 per cent.
Add to that research showing that when businesses lose customers, in 70 per cent of cases they are lost because they do not like the human side of doing business with you.
The evidence for caring goes further and lends more support to the Gandhian approach; the Gallup group is the leading researcher into what makes up a strong brand, and their findings highlight the value of human qualities. Gallup looked at customer loyalty and brand advantage, finding people want a brand that:
– listens to me, cares for me
– reliably delivers what it promises
– is always interesting by being different or innovative
– wraps up our dealings smoothly and simply
– is happy, and projects this happiness
In training leaders and managers to improve their communication, I often say: “nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care”.
Mr Birla has explained the extent of his commitment to values, “Great businesses are never built on the quick sands of opportunism. I reiterate that if living by our values means, perhaps, growing at a pace slower than we would otherwise have liked, so be it. For us, leadership lies at the heart of knowing what we stand for.”
But for many business leaders, this step into the personal side, into human values such as caring and listening, is foreign territory; after all, business schools and work experience have taught them little about caring for others. Now we know there are real dollars and real advantages in doing just that.
One wise sage said that a man wrapped up in himself is a small parcel. And Gandhi told us “As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.” He went on to say “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” Today the western business world needs more beacons, leaders who can show that the caring side of life does have a positive role in the world of commerce.
*Stephen Manallack is a communication consultant, professional speaker and trainer. His training programs include creating a corporate communication culture, and how managers and leaders can create engaged employees. Stephen is the author of You Can Communicate (Pearson 2002). He is a member of the committee of management of the Australia India Business Council.
Wardha Sevagram to get Rs 5 crore from PM’s Fund
Yahoo! India – India – April 11, 2007
Mahatma Gandhi’s Sevagram Ashram at Wardha, which was facing a shortage of funds, will soon receive Rs 5 crore from the Prime Minister’s Fund.
The Indian Express had first reported how the ashram was finding it difficult to manage its day-to-day expenses due to lack of funds as a result of which, the ashram had agreed to the Wardha District Administration’s plan to build a tourism complex around it to augment the ashram’s sources of income. Following the report, Congress President Sonia Gandhi had donated Rs 11 lakh to the ashram on behalf of the party and Rs 25,000 on her own.
Last year, when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited the region to interact with distressed cotton farmers, he also dropped into the ashram to enquire about its financial requirements. “We had only asked him to do something for the farmers. We did not say anything to indicate we were looking forward to any government aid. But it seems the Prime Minister had it on his mind,” Secretary of the Management Committee M B Nisal said.
Nisal admitted that some committee members had reservations about whether the ashram should accept the government aid. “But we finally decided to honour the Prime Minister’s offer,” he said. The Union Ministry of Culture had sent a fax to the ashram on March 24, seeking its bank account number and other details. “We had to complete some formalities, which we have done. The money could be reaching us anytime,” Nisal said.
He added that the money would be in the form of a corpus and the ashram would be able to utilise only the interest, which would be to the tune of Rs 45 lakh per year.
“This is a good amount,” he said. Currently, the ashram’s main source of sustenance is the Yatri Niwas (tourist huts), which earns Rs 1-1.5 lakh a year for the ashram. “Also, some five years ago, we had made a public appeal seeking donations. We got about Rs 22 lakh in donations. We get about Rs 70,000 from Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, Delhi,” Nisal said.
“We have done a survey on what all we could do on Gandhian lines for the surrounding villages. We have ideas such as promotion of organic farming, dairy, etc.”
Enchanting Experience of Living Truthfully
The Times of India – India – by R.K. Langar – April 11, 2007
Truth is bitter to those who live on the foundation of falsehood. They fear truth and so they call it bitter. For a person leading a righteous life truth is an asset, a source of strength.
To him truth is the basis on which he stands and negotiates all activities of life. Truth is the basis of wisdom. You can be an intellectual even if you disrespect truth but you cannot be wise if you are inclined towards falsehood.
Scriptures and religions value truth and define it in many ways. Brahmn or ultimate Reality is described as truth in the upanishads.
Truth is Brahman and Bliss. India’s national motto is: Truth alone triumphs Satyameva Jayate. Truthfulness in thought, words and deeds is the fundamental requirement for your elevation.
The Bhagavad Gita says that one should rise above different modes of nature or Prakriti and establish oneself in truth.
Saints say that Brahmn and Atman can be realised by holding on to truth. Truth is like a compass which shows you the right track.
The Mahabharata says that there is no virtue equal to truth and no sin greater than falsehood. To be truthful presupposes a prior commitment to non-violence.
Non-violence is the basis of the search for truth says Mahatma Gandhi. Vedanta declares that truth must be free from contradictions, so evident that it can do without any proof and truth must be universal.
Each plane of existence or consciousness has its own truth. As you progress on the path of self-elevation, a higher truth replaces the one that was active before.
Aurobindo advises that each one has to find out which form of truth is sought after by his soul and, then, he should organise his life around that truth.
Truth is absolute as well as relative. The highest truth is absolute truth or God and relative truth moves us higher and higher to get close to Absolute truth. When we know the truth all our doubts and misconceptions fall away and things become crystal clear.
A truthful person has great power of conviction. Truth also gives life. Truthful persons are a source of joy to all; they are kind, compassionate, childlike and loving. A truthful person is honest, just, straightforward and sincere as all qualities are modified expression of truth.
Both scientists and spiritual persons are in search of truth. Science and religion will therefore meet one day. Truth is the guiding principle for both worldly and spiritual life.
Since their goals are the same, there can be no contradiction between science and spirituality. Enlightenment comes only when there is complete understanding of truth.
Today you may feel that truthfulness cannot carry us far to obtain materialistic goals. You may call truth as bitter but if you follow truth it will eventually work out best.
When you realise the goodness of truth you will understand that you were living in misery by living in lies. Truth also creates a distaste for sense objects which raises us beyond sense perceptions.
While it may be true that truth as a value is compromised in the present times, this cannot overshadow truth as a virtue and truthful living as the greatest virtue of all.
Truthfulness coincides our outer life with inner life. When we become truthful we get past the avoidable tendency to hide things from others. Human relations can never thrive on untruth. Be truthful and gain the warmth of human relations.
“Granny D” pushes “politics of love”
ChicoER.com – USA – by Larry Mitchell – April 10, 2007
Preaching love and campaign-finance reform, 97-year-old “Granny D” spoke in Chico Monday.
Surely one of America’s oldest political activists, Doris “Granny D” Haddock is renowned for promoting her cause by walking across the country when she was 89.
The New Hampshire resident spoke to about 50 people in the Chico City Council Chambers at noon Monday and planned to give a second talk at Chico State University later in the day.
At the Council Chambers, Haddock called for action against the “giant beast” of unrestrained capitalism.
“A century ago, the ordinary people of America joined together to tie down this giant,” she said. “The robber barons remained tied down for a time. Now, loosed again, these giants have taken over the television networks and most of our newspapers.”
The new laissez-faire philosophy, which she called “neoliberalism,” creates wars and drains money from vital government functions, like police, fire protection, schools and health care, she said.
The solution is publicly funded political campaigns, she suggested. Since politicians depend on big corporations to finance their campaigns, they do the bidding of those companies once they are in office. If the public paid for campaigns, elected officials would really follow the will of the people, she said.
Haddock suggested Americans are “drones” who go to work each day, watch television each night to “receive instructions on what to buy,” then go to sleep to rest up so they can work long hours the next day.
“That’s not freedom by any name,” she said.
Haddock said she’s glad Arizona and Maine now have public funding of campaigns and hopes more states will follow their example.
There are “two kinds of politics in the world,” she said. The “politics of love” and the “politics of fear.”
The first is characterized by “cooperation, sharing and inclusion.” The second involves “narrow ideology that separates us, exploits us, demeans us and overcharges us.”
These two political forms are now “pitted against each other” in a battle that will define America in the future, she said.
Haddock said she got fired up about campaign-finance reform in the 1990s, when the McCain-Feingold bill had stalled in Congress.
On a trip to Florida with her son, she saw an old man walking along the road with a pack on his back, and she asked her son what he was doing.
“He’s gone on the road again,” her son said. Haddock told her son she wanted to do the same.
He would only allow it if she trained for a while and showed she was fit and could take care of herself out on her own.
Haddock was asked Monday when she is happiest.
“I’m always happy,” she said though she admitted she gets a little down once in a while, when the changes she seeks don’t seem to happen soon enough.
Haddock said she believes in Ghandi’s message that “you have to take on the burden yourself — don’t ask anyone else — you have to do it yourself.”
Gandhians to do what they know best, ensure works on Mahatma remain error-free
Indian Express – India – by Syed Khalique Ahmed – April 10, 2007
Ahmedabad, April 9: After the Information and Broadcasting Ministry cancelled the second edition of the Collected Works of Gandhiji running into 100 volumes and about 50,000 pages owing to several errors, the ministry is now taking the assistance of three Gujarat-based Gandhians in reprinting some of the volumes so as to ensure that no mistake creeps in again. These Gandhians have also been assigned the task of digitalisation of all the 100 volumes.
Initially, only 17 volumes based on original copies of the text printed in 1976 would be reprinted because they had run out of print, said Veena Jain, director of the Publications Division of I&B Ministry.
We have hired the services of the Ahmedabad-based Gandhians to ensure that there is no mistake in the books on Gandhiji, said Jain adding that the three experts had been requested to tally the dummy copies of the volumes with the original text before sending them for printing. The printing would also be done in Ahmedabad itself.
The three Gandhians whose services have been hired are Dinaben Patel associated with Sabarmati Ashram, vice-chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapeeth Sudarshan Iyengar and Tridib Suhrud, who teaches at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Communication Technology (DAICT) in Gandhinagar.
Over 500 mistakes were detected by Patel and Suhrud in the second edition of the Collected Works of Gandhiji printed by the Publications Division in 1999. They carried out a campaign against it and the issue was raised in the Lok Sabha on December 24, 2004. The then I& B Minister Jaipal Reddy told the Lok Sabha that the claims of Gandhians were true.
A committee headed by noted Gandhian Narayan Desai , with Dr B R Nanda and Anupam Mishra as members, was appointed by the Centre to look into the matter. Patel and Suhrud had then represented before the committee.
The committee agreed with the facts presented by the duo and recommended that all the volumes of the second edition be cancelled and only the original version of 1976 be considered true.
The committees recommendations were accepted by the Centre. The second edition of 1999 was cancelled and its copies were withdrawn from all bookstores in the country as well abroad. Libraries that had already purchased the second edition were instructed to take it off the shelf.
The I&B Ministry then hired the services of Patel, Suhrud and Sudarshan Iyengar to assist in reprinting of the Collected Works of Gandhiji. I agreed to offer my services for the job when I was approached, said Suhrud.
Iyengar said he would ensure that there were no anomalies in the reprint of the book on Gandhiji.
Suhrud said the dummies of some of the volumes were ready and printing would begin in about a weeks time.
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