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Bending the binary | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Bending the binary | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Raj Ayyar |New Delhi |Updated: August 31, 2019 12:00:37 am



Bending the binary

An informed account of the Mahatma’s philosophy that avoids both hagiography and Gandhi-bashing

A display of Mahatma Gandhi’s spoon, spectacle and thread. (Express Archives)


Indian discourses about Gandhi are often squeezed into a tight little binary — hagiography or Gandhi-bashing. Fortunately, Gandhi and Philosophy by Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan neatly sidesteps this binary. The book is an interesting and innovative attempt at grappling with Gandhi’s complex and contested intersections with philosophy.

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