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A biographer’s journey: In search of the Mahatma
Oct 01, PM IST
The Collected Works had all the known letters that Gandhi himself wrote; but virtually none of the letters that he received or responded to.
[In , Hindustan Times marked Mahatma Gandhi’s th year with a special series comprising reportage, invited columns, essays and archival material.
On the occasion of the Mahatma’s birth anniversary on October 2, this article has been published from a curated selection of our coverage.]
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG) run to one hundred volumes. Many years before I read these volumes, one by one, their Chief Editor, Professor K. Swaminathan, had satirised scholars like myself in verse:
Hundred hefty haystacks
Cluttering up the landscape
Hold within their entrails hidden
Half a dozen needles.
Researchers of the future
With fine-toothed combs
And salaries to earn
May perch on each pile,
Attack it and ransack it
And search, search, search
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