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The American writer, Louis Fischer, is best known for his book,
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, which Richard Attenborough drew upon while making his award-winning film of 1982. Fischer’s book was published in 1950, two years after Gandhi’s assassination. Eight years previously, he had written a much slimmer (and now far less well known) volume titled
A Week with Gandhi. This was based on a visit Fischer made to India in the summer of 1942, in the course of which he had conversations with Ambedkar, Savarkar and Jinnah in the great city of Bombay, before travelling to Sevagram to speak with that village’s most famous resident.
Gwalior: Hindu Mahasabha s Library on Nathuram Godse Shut, Material Seized
The library contained speeches made by the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. The Mahasabha also planned to hold lectures on Godseâs journey and Mahatma Gandhiâs failure to stop the Partition .
Nathuram Godse.
Politics13/Jan/2021
New Delhi: A “library” opened by the Hindu Mahasabha bearing th name of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse was closed by the Gwalior district administration on Tuesday. According to reports, the administration also seized its material over law and order concerns.
The “
gyanshaala” or study centre, opened at the Mahasabha’s office in Daulatganj area in Gwalior on Sunday. The fact that it bore Godse’s name came under intense criticism, with the police also receiving several complaints.