Mahatma Gandhi's biography in Gujarati, written by Narayan Desai, son of Gandhi's personal secretary Mahadev Desai, is being translated into Malayalam. AHMEDABAD: Mahatma Gandhi's biography in ...

On this day, 45 years ago, Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India declared Emergency in India in 1975. The proclamation was signed by the then President of India, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. Indira ...

In this revealing, original portrait of the man known as the “Father of India,” Joseph Lelyveld charts the development of Gandhi’s social vision, tying his early experiences as a lawyer in South ...

In his latest book, "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India" (Alfred A. Knopf, 410 pages, $27.95), Joseph Lelyveld's title and subtitle are, in a sense, at war with one another and ...

Mohandas Gandhi's latest biographer, Ramachandra Guha, often recounts what South Africans of Indian origin have told him: You gave us a barrister named Mr. Gandhi; we gave you a Mahatma (a Sanskrit ...

At the height of the khadi movement, when Mahatma Gandhi exhorted everyone to boycott foreign clothes, Kasturba, his wife, complained that she found it difficult to wear a khadi sari and cook as it ...