The Forgotten Woman: The Untold Story of Kastur Gandhi Wife of Mahatma Gandhi
Arun Gandhi is the fifth grandson of Mahatma (Mohandas) and Kastur Gandhi through his second son Manilal Gandhi. Together with his late wife Sunanda, the couple have generated an extraordinary read in The Forgotten Woman: The Untold Story of Kastur Gandhi. Here is a book that is not only informative and accessible, but also graced by an elegance and sensitive understanding of a grandmother who was far from being ignorant or clueless a propos the importance of her husband's mission in life. Kastur Gandhi wife of Mahatma Gandhi. Arun informs his readers in the introduction that he refuses to believe that his grandmother Kastur was incompetent as this was not his experience, nor that of his parents. Although she may not have been formally educated and could not read or write, upon reading this fascinating book we discover she certainly was far from being an unaware and a blundering fool. And as Arun states: "without her unstinted cooperation Grandfather could not have achieved the spiritual heights that he did." Beginning with an account of the Satyagraha struggle which Gandhi led in South Africa fo
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Born in in Durban, South Africa, Arun is the fifth grandson of India’s legendary leader, Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi. Growing up under the discriminatory apartheid laws of South Africa, he was beaten by “white” South Africans for being too black and “black” South Africans for being too white; so, Arun sought eye-for-an-eye justice. However, he learned from his parents and grandparents that justice does not mean revenge, it means transforming the opponent through love and suffering.
Grandfather taught Arun to understand nonviolence through understanding violence. “If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world,” Gandhi said. Through daily lessons, Arun says, he learned about violence and about anger.
Arun shares these lessons all around the world. For the past five years, he has participated in the Renaissance Weekend deliberations with President Clinton and other well-respected Rhodes Scholars. In recent years his engagements included speaking at the Chicago Children’s Museum and the Women’s Justice Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He also delivered tal
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পরাধীনতার নিরন্ধ্র অন্ধকারে অসহায় নিপীড়িত মানুষের দুঃসময়ে তিনি নিয়ে এলেন মুক্তির বার্তা । দিশেহারা পথভ্রান্ত মানুষকে দীক্ষিত করলেন নবজীবনের মহামন্ত্রে ,ভারতবর্ষের আপামর জনতাকে তিনি জাতীয়তাবাদের প্রবল উন্মাদনায় মাতিয়ে তুললেন ।
সেই নবজাগ্রত জাতির হাতে তিনিই তুলে দিলেন ‘অহিংসা’ নামক অমোঘ এক অস্ত্র ।তিনি আর কেউ নন, তিনি ভারতবাসীর সর্বজনপ্রিয় ,জাতির জনক এবং অন্যতম দেশনায়ক মহাত্মা গান্ধী । তিনি রক্তের বদলে রক্ত চাইলেন না ,আঘাতের প্রত্যুত্তরে প্রত্যাঘাতের কথা কখনো বলেননি ।তাঁর কণ্ঠে ভারতাত্মার শ্বাশ্বত সুরই প্রতিধ্বনিত হয়েছিল । তিনি চেয়েছিলেন মানুষকে আত্মশক্তিতে বলীয়ান করতে, আত্মত্যাগের মহান ব্রতে দেশবাসীকে উদ্বুদ্ধ করতে। তাঁর অহিংসা তাই দুর্বলের মুখোশ নয়; নয় ভীরুর হুঙ্কার ।
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১৮৬৯ খ্রিষ্টাব্দে ২ অক্টোবর গুজরাটের পোরবন্দরে ভূমিষ্ঠ হন ভবিষ্যৎ ভারতের স্বাধীনতার যজ্ঞের অন্যতম পুরোহিত মহাত্মা গান্ধী যার বাল্য নাম ছিল মোহনদাস করমচাঁদ গান্ধী । তার পিতার নাম করমচাঁদ উত্তমচাঁদ গান্ধী এবং মাতা পুতলি বাই । পারিবারিক আদর্শের বেদি মঞ্চেই তাঁর মহৎ জীবনের দীক্ষা। পিতার তেজস্বিতা, সত্যনিষ্ঠা ও বুদ্ধি এবং মাতার ধর্মপ্রাণতা ,ক্ষমা, করুণা সহিষ্ণুতা প্রভৃতি মানবিক গুণ তিনি উত্তরাধিকার সূত্রেই পেয়েছিলেন ।
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