![]() ![]() But Gandhi was too mesmerised by himself, despite his oft-repeated protestations that he was not a visionary and that he was "prone to many weaknesses". Men such as Aurobindo, who similarly launched their political and public careers in India, wisely took to the hills to contemplate life and the afterlife and provided a much more nuanced understanding of the Hindu/Indian spiritual ethos. What gets confirmed, too, is the moral ambiguity of the man who many people still revere as a saint. We get reaffirmation, however, of Gandhi's sheer presence, persistence and self-creation through self-promotion. J oseph Lelyveld's book Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India does not break new ground, but the Gandhi of hagiographers takes a beating. ![]()
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