Keay's elegant book reaches the parts other histories ignore
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Is it a time, a place, a culture or a look; or does being Indian have to do with intensity?
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The Indian state might have become less a master and more a servant of the Indian people and the hierarchies in the society might have become less steep.
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The Mahatma's attachment to a beautiful Bengali woman threatened his marriage, reveals his grandson.
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How would he reconcile support for a bloody war with ahimsa?
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Name-calling, intimidation and ham-fisted use of state repression—India is under siege from a few driving a majoritarian agenda. Progress will come only when citizens from dominant groups recognise the equal rights of all minorities and then force change from within.
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Mahatma Gandhi embraced those who differed with him as he knew it's only human to be imperfect, writes Bapu's grandson and historian Rajmohan Gandhi
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