Gandhi’s autobiography in Malayalam outsells others | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Gandhi’s autobiography in Malayalam outsells others | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By PTI |Updated: September 30, 2019 6:45:18 pm

Gandhi’s autobiography in Malayalam outsells others

The book in Gujarati was published in 1927. The Malayalam version stole a march in terms of sales despite coming into print only in 1997.

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Gandhi’s autobiography was written in weekly installments and published in his journal Navjivan from 1925 to 1929. (Source: File Photo)

Gujarat might be Mahatma Gandhi’s native state but it is ‘God’s own country’ Kerala that has more takers for his autobiography. According to Navjivan Trust, an Ahmedabad-based publishing house founded by Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth has sold 8.24 lakh copies in its Malayalam version, the highest for any language after English, while the figure is 6.71 lakh for Gujarati.