Lost Diary of Kastur - Gandhi, Tushar
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A couple of years ago, while searching through cupboards and trunks at Kasturba Ashram, Indore, the staff of Gandhi Research Foundation of Jalgaon found a deteriorating and damaged diary. It turned out to be a 135-page diary written by Kasturba Gandhi, from January to September 1933. Like Kasturba, her diary was forgotten and neglected. This book is a reproduction of the diary, accompanied by a transcription of what she has written in Gujarati, and translated into English by her great-grandson, Tushar Gandhi. All her life, Kasturba was considered uneducated and unlettered. Initially when…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
A couple of years ago, while searching through cupboards and trunks at Kasturba Ashram, Indore, the staff of Gandhi Research Foundation of Jalgaon found a deteriorating and damaged diary. It turned out to be a 135-page diary written by Kasturba Gandhi, from January to September 1933. Like Kasturba, her diary was forgotten and neglected. This book is a reproduction of the diary, accompanied by a transcription of what she has written in Gujarati, and translated into English by her great-grandson, Tushar Gandhi. All her life, Kasturba was considered uneducated and unlettered. Initially when Tushar Gandhi spoke about the diary, family members refused to believe that there could be such a thing, 'She was illiterate. She could not write.' As Tushar read Kasturba's diary, this assumption was dispelled. It provided a glimpse into who she was - an individual, a companion and spouse, and a satyagrahi in her own right, unlettered but astute. In The Lost Diary of Kastur, My Ba, the reader for the first time gets to hear from Kasturba, in her own words. Through day-to-day activities, it provides a peek into what it took to be married to a 'Mahatma'. Here was a woman who was witnessing history being made, observing and understanding the process and participating in it, too. It also tells of her two imprisonments during that year, not because she was Bapu's spouse but because she was offering satyagraha herself. One-hundred-and-fifty-three years after her birth, this book finally presents Kastur as her own person, a woman of substance.
Autorenporträt
Tushar Gandhi is the great-grandson of Kasturba and Mohandas Gandhi grandson of their second son Manilal and daughter-in-law Sushila and son of Sunanda and Arun Gandhi. He is founder-president of the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation president of Lok Seva Trust and director of the Gandhi Research Foundation Jalgaon. In 2005 he commemorated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Dandi Kooch by organizing re-enactment of the 241-mile-long walk. He walked the entire stretch and was instrumental in getting the prime minister to declare the route from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi India's historic heritage route. Tushar currently lives in Mumbai with his wife Sonal and children Vivan and Kasturi.