Akul tripathi biography of mahatma gandhi

- By Akul Tripathi*

Was Mahatma Gandhi, who helmed India’s freedom struggle, an introvert?

He was certainly no swashbuckling hero, says Akul Tripathi, but a leader who drew from his quiet and restrained personality to patiently wear down his opponents.

By Akul Tripathi*.

Akul Tripathi 2 October Mahatma GandhiComment.

He was certainly no swashbuckling hero, says Akul Tripathi, but a leader who drew from his quiet and restrained personality to patiently wear down his.

Tripathi finds it puzzling and weird that Gandhi, despite being aware of the role of media in reaching the masses and the government, was against the cinema.

The writer is indebted to his father, Sh Hawa Singh Kaushik, and mother, late Smt Prem Devi, who inculcated in him the values the Mahatma.

In this manner, he scripted India’s massive freedom struggle.

Friendly and shy. These are blanket concepts that we have learnt to identify with and categorise others into, ever since we started understanding the world around us.

As vocabulary and the need for euphemism dawned upon us, these got replaced by the technical terminologies of introvert and extrovert - sometimes without requisite understanding of them. Knowingly or unknowingly we have proceeded to incorporate these two concepts in our attempts to rationalise the actions of people around us and their interactions with us.

Eventually, certain attributes have become the generalisations of a ‘type’ of people, related by things as diver