Anything about Gandhiji from the memory of a
person associated with him would be valuable.
Shri M.N. Karassery has done yeoman service by
providing us with the memoirs orally obtained
from a secretary of the Mahatma,
Shri Venkataram Kalyanam in his very old age.
The fact that this related to the last period of
Gandhiji’s life – his heroic hour, when he boldly
confronted the mass murderers of India’s communal
holocaust of 1945-47, gives special value to the
memoirs now brought before us.
I hope the work now translated from Malayalam into
English, gets the widest possible readership; it has a
profound message for all of us in these critical times.
– Prof. Irfan Habib