Truth about Gandhi - book review.

Found this book in my neglected bookshelf, protected by a few other books from time and dust. I don't remember when I came to possess this book because , I have certainly not bought it. It is a second book at the best because it bears the scribble ' Meghshyam Ajgaonkar, Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalya,
Laburnum Road, Bombay, 400007'. As a child , I used to live in the pin code area 400008. The proximal transmigration remains unexplained.

The gentleman who possessed it earlier had not read it is apperent from the initial attention notes and then a silence. It also appears, by holmes deductive methods, to be an aged person having the ownership of senile tremors reflected on the scribble. It was curious that he chose the last page to record his name and the name of a library - possible dedicated to a loved one. The last page might be chosen because it's often a blank or advertising page, less aesthetically intrusive than the front page. It's a simple, functional way to claim the book while knowing the inscription will be less visible if they lend it out. Or may there are other reasons. 

The book it self is a conscious appreciation of the ahimsa and Satyam approach to life as was presented to us by Mahatma Gandhi. It is a eulogy of sort but worth reading as a neatly presented perspective of many of us even if we do not subscribe to the political page. 
The author MD. Jepheth has a few more books to his credit. I was not able to get much in form of understanding of the person he is , but his other books do suggest his likeliness to the idea peace, South afric and Jews.

Pratyush Chaudhuri 


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