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Essay: My Favorite Leader Mahatma Gandhi
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[Points: Name of the leader - his/her origin as a leader - his/her inspiration in
leadership - his/her achievements - his/her social services - the reasons of your
liking him/her - what do you learn - how do you get inspiration from him/her ?]
“My life is my message.” - Gand
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Raising the Curtain on &#;Gandhi Centre Stage&#;
“History … is a record of an interruption of the course of nature. Soul-force, being natural, is not noted in history.” —
I have never bothered to respond to Gandhi detractors because, like the Mahatma himself, I tend to think their pathetic writings are best left to die a natural death—the eventual fate of all untruth. Nevertheless, when Michael Lerner urged me to reply to “Gandhi Centre Stage,” the article by Perry Anderson that appeared in a recent issue of the London Review of Books, I assented.
Gandhi takes part in the Bardoli Satyagraha in Credit: Creative Commons.
Anderson is a brilliant traditional historian; his article (the first in a series) is well written and very well researched. His article provides a detailed and at times astute analysis of Gandhi’s life and career—from a political perspective. It is, in short, a brilliant failure.
Reading Anderson’s Gandhi, I felt as though I were watching a play where th