ABSTRACT
The book continued so long as the state of mind that had prompted it needed to speak. Having told the tale of Gandhi’s sorrows, which are also the sorrows of humankind though it knows that not, the state of mind withdrew into silence with the tale’s sad denouement that humankind today needs Gandhi urgently, but is not ready to receive him. The book shows how Gandhi’s own people tormented him even as he brought them to the threshold of freedom. The worst of those torments was the failure of non-violence. As non-violence of the weak, passive resistance is always a preparation for violence. Afraid of British reprisal, Indians had kept repressed within them the violence they had felt all along. The same holds true for truth. No normal human transaction is conceivable without mutual trust and truth. Every society may have its peculiar modes of coping with falsehood, deception, fraud and the like.
