: In Gandhi’s footsteps: How my grandfather’s association with the Mahatma influenced my life #IndiaNEWS The Mahatma was a presence in my life even before I was born. In August 1942, Mohandas Gandhi

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In Gandhi’s footsteps: How my grandfather’s association with the Mahatma influenced my life #IndiaNEWS
The Mahatma was a presence in my life even before I was born. In August 1942, Mohandas Gandhi and other Congress leaders gathered in Mumbai’s Gowalia Tank to demand an end to British rule. At the Quit India meeting, my mother, then aged 18, told me that she sang “Vande Matram�. She was eight months pregnant – with me.Some time later, when I was a child, too young to have any memories, I was taken to Gandhi to have him bless me, an elderly aunt told me. Gandhi’s spirit has stayed with me my whole life.Our family’s reverence for Gandhi was the result of the association he had with my grandfather, Purushottam Kanji. That relationship has determined the way I have tried to live: the values that Gandhi propagated have deeply influenced me. It happened by natural course. My awareness of this osmosis has increased with age.I recently recalled an incident when, as a schoolboy of six or seven, I came home from school in tears because the school bully had said something mean to me. My mother taught me a Gandhian lesson: “If he swore at you, the filth is in his mouth, not in your ears.� To this day, if I...Read more

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