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Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India

Between Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi and Lage Raho Munna Bhai, the old man had become a showbiz figure until Joseph Lelyveld came along with this profound and penetrating dissection of his life and work. It’s a feature of the intimate relationship that the author has built up with his subject that Great Soul seems sometimes to damn with faint praise and sometimes to invent criticism only to balance the admiration. But the banal is never too far off where India’s first NRI is concerned. 

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