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The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Gujarati: સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા, satyanā prayogo athavā ātmakathā, lit. ' Experiments of Truth or Autobiography ') is the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, covering his life from early childhood
In Europe, Romain Rolland was the first to discuss Gandhi in his 1924 book Mahatma Gandhi, and Brazilian anarchist and feminist Maria Lacerda de Moura wrote about Gandhi in her work on pacifism. In 1931, physicist Albert Einstein exchanged letters with Gandhi and called him "a role model for the generations to come" in a letter writing about ...
Mahatma Gandhi's statements, letters and life have attracted much political and scholarly analysis of his principles, practices and beliefs, including what influenced him. Some writers present him as a paragon of ethical living and pacifism, while others present him as a more complex, contradictory and evolving character influenced by his ...
It is partially based on Sahitya Akademi Award winning Kannada writer Bolwar Mahammad Kunhi's book Papu Gandhi, Bapu Gandhi Aada Kathe: The Story of Mahatma Gandhi and The Story of My Experiments with Truth, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi. The film covers the events of Gandhi's childhood from the ages of 6 to 14.
An Autobiography Or The Story of My Experiments with Truth: A Table of Concordance, (New Delhi and London: Routledge, 2009). 26. M K Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj, Suresh Sharma and Tridip Suhrud (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2009, Reprinted, 2019) Translated in French as Gandhi: Hind Swaraj, L’e´mancipation a` L’ Indienne, traduction par Annie ...
Maganlal Gandhi, grandson of an uncle of Mahatma Gandhi, came up with the word "Sadagraha" and won the prize. Subsequently, to make it clearer, Gandhi changed it to Satyagraha . "Satyagraha" is a tatpuruṣa compound of the Sanskrit words satya (meaning "truth") and āgraha ("polite insistence", or "holding firmly to").
The concept of nonviolence (ahimsa) and nonviolent resistance has a long history in Indian religious thought and has had many revivals in Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and Jain contexts. Gandhi explains his philosophy and way of life in his autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth. He was quoted as saying that:
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence is a 1969 book about Mahatma Gandhi by the German-born American developmental psychologist Erik H. Erikson. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction [1] and the U.S. National Book Award in category Philosophy and Religion. [2] The book was republished in 1993 by Norton. [3]