Gandhi Through a Child’s Eyes: An Intimate Memoir

“Gandhi was father to the ashram, leader of the nation, Mahatma to the common Indian. But, to us children, he was above all simply a friend.”

So says Narayan Desai in this memoir of childhood with Mahatma Gandhi. Son of Gandhi’s chief secretary — and today a major figure in the worldwide nonviolence movement — Desai spent his first twenty years in Gandhi’s ashrams. Drawing on this rich background, he offers a rare, intimate, and revealing portrait of Gandhi and the people around him.