Dr Navodita Pande

Gandhi, the Communicator Dr Navodita Pande

Comprising of 14 chapters, Gandhi, the Communicator deals with Gandhian ideals based on the author's study of the Mahatma at the Gandhi Museum, Rajkot in Gujarat. The chapters are named after truth, celibacy, control of the palate, ahimsa, removal of untouchability, non-possession (aparigraha), abhay (fearlessness), asteya (non-stealing), zaat-mehnat (bread labour), equality of religions (sarva dharm sambhaav or tolerance) and swadeshi. Gandhiji was inspired by four main thinkers - Leo Tolstoy on whose name he even named one of his farms, John Ruskin, Henry David Thoreau and Gopal Krishna Gokhale.