Kasturba Gandhi (née Kapadia) was born on April 11, 1869, at Porbandar, Gujrat. She married Gandhiji at the tender age of thirteen. A popular adage says that there is a woman behind every successful man.
This statement appears to be literally true when it comes to Kasturba who adopted all the edicts, rights or wrongs of Gandhiji and played a vital role in transforming Gandhi into Mahatma Gandhi. She walked shoulder to shoulder with him in jails and during the racial discrimination movement in South Africa.
Her popularity was humongous, and Gandhiji once said, “Those people who came into close contact with me and Ba, many among them had more faith in Ba than in me.” Ba breathed her last on February 22, 1944, in a prison.
This biography of Kasturba Gandhi enables us to get a clear glimpse into the soul of a girl, who played a pivotal role during the years of freedom struggle in India from the tender age of thirteen to her death.
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Prabhat Prakashan
Publication Year
2023 May
Number of Pages
116
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A. K. Gandhi is a historian, author and translator. He writes in both Hindi and English and has several books to his credit, published by prestigious publishers. His book ‘Pratap, Shivaji aur Chbhatrasal’ is included in Madhya Pradesh’s education syllabus as a supplementary study for class XI for two academic sessions (2016- 17, 2017-18). His articles and stories have appeared in several prestigious newspapers and magazines including ‘The Hindu,’ ‘Times of India,’ ‘Reader’s Digest,’ ‘Competition Success Review,’ ‘Amar Ujala, ’Janwani’ and ‘Dainik Jagran.
As a translator (Hindi to English, English to Hindi), he has translated several published books, including ‘Gond,” ‘Komagata Maru’, ‘The Battle of Rezang La’ and Narendra Modi’s ‘Jyotipunj’ (Hindi to English).
An ex-IAF language specialist, presently A.K. Gandhi is also a Mentor under the Prime Minister’s Yuva Mentorship Scheme (for young authors), as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav programme.