Ramachandra Guha: How Modi is attempting to use Gandhi's name to whitewash his dark record
Narendra Modi at the Sabarmati Ashram in 2017. | @narendramodi_in via Twitter I first visited Ahmedabad in 1979, and in the following decade went back often for both professional and personal reasons. Then I began research on Gandhi, and my attachment to the city deepened even more. In the summer of 2002, on my first trip back after the horrific riots that had taken place earlier that year, I naturally went to the Sabarmati Ashram, where I spent some time talking to one of the trustees, a quiet, self-effacing man who had spent 30 years in the service of Gandhi. In the cours...
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