Z.G. Muhammad I have an admiration for some of the biographers of Mahatma Gandhi, for documenting his life candidly and bringing out some aspect of his life that would otherwise have been slaughtered by hagiologists.  On reading; ‘Gandhi Before India’, written by a contemporary Indian historian, Ramachandra Guha, I became envious of the author for his art of storytelling. The book undoubtedly, as author in his last chapter, ‘How The Mahatma Was Made’, writes, has ‘reconstructed Mohandas K Gandhi less known and sometimes forgotten years in Porbandar, Rajkot, Bombay, London, Durban and Johannesburg, on the basis of contemporary records rather than on retrospective accounts.” While hailing, some biographers of Gandhi or Ramachandra Guha for his ‘reconstructing’, Gandhi’s story before arriving in India, I have a complaint against some of the important … Read entire article »