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The thought of writing a book on depiction of Gandhi in media flashed in Magdum's mind while National Film Archives of India (NFAI) organised a film festival and a photo exhibition on Gandhi's life in 2019. Magdum headed NFAI then.
The Collected Works had all the known letters that Gandhi himself wrote; but virtually none of the letters that he received or responded to. | Latest News India
Mahatma Gandhi started his day (with prayers) when Marcel Proust would be ending his (after soirées)
Mahatma Gandhi | Wikimedia Commons The American writer, Louis Fischer, is best known for his book, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, which Richard Attenborough drew upon while making his award-winning film of 1982. Fischer’s book was published in 1950, two years after Gandhi’s assassination. Eight years previously, he had written a much slimmer (and now far less well known) volume titled A Week with Gandhi. This was based on a visit Fischer made to India in the summer of 1942, in the course of which he had conversations with Ambedkar, Savarkar and Jinnah in the great city o...
A peek into Mahatma Gandhi’s mailbox Most Gandhian scholars are aware of the exhaustive Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG) running into 97 volumes and published between 1958 and 1994. They consist of letters, articles, and speeches written or made by Bapu during his lifetime. But in the quite preserve of the Sabarmati Ashram Conservation and Preservation Trust, there are some 8,500 letters that Bapu had retained during his lifetime. These were the letters he had received. The Navajivan Trust, a publication set up by Bapu, has published the second volume of ‘Letters to Gandhi’ cons...