ABSTRACT
Sri Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known to millions of Indians as “Mahatma”—the great souland father of the nation, experimented in several domains of life. His autobiography-My Experiments with Truth-is considered a classic in the history of hagiography.1 It is a wonder that in spite of his extremely busy life as a nonviolent leader against the British empire, he found time to ponder and work on the problems of all those who were poor, exploited, and hungry. He, from his utter simplicity and sincerity, tuned into their problems-sanitation, nutrition, crowding, social justice, and so on. In our days of intense professional superspecialization, we stand dismayed at his breadth of interest and intensity of concerns. Sometimes, our scientiœc hubris prevents us from even a study of his lifework and thoughts-so relevant to the global crises in diverse œelds of life, including foods and nutrition.
