"A man of rare personal courage, Niranjan Ramakrishnan offers witty, quotable sentences and an illuminated understanding of Gandhi's mind." - Rajmohan Gandhi, former University of Illinois professor and author of an award-winning biography of his grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi provokes and prods the reader with its broad canvas, incisive comments and relevance." - Tribune India Reading Gandhi in the Twenty-First Century. Gandhi has more practical achievements, social and political, to his credit than almost any other thinker.
"Scholarship on Gandhi often verges on the hagiographic, which makes it difficult to relate his thoughts to the modern generation with its irreverent attitude. How many of us know his views on environment, demand-led economy, swaraj from state control and globalization?" - The Financial Express 'Gandhi's tragedy is that he is unsung, even unknown for his greatest contribution, even in the land of his birth,' rues Ramakrishnan. "Niranjan Ramakrishnan's Reading Gandhi in the Twenty-First Century is a discovery of the Mahatma, whom we have made synonymous with a timid view of non-violence and discarded his thoughts as outdated.
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