Felice varini biography of mahatma gandhi
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The venue: Crossword. The audience: Writers, journalists, book lovers, freedom fighters and commoners alike. The event: Book release ceremony.
My friend, a noted writer, called me on Monday evening (8th) and told me to join him at Crossword. He also told me to get the scrapbook that I had made on ‘Gandhi’s last 200 days’.
The book “Mohandas– a true story of a man, his people and an empire, on Mahatma Gandhi” by former Parliamentarian and writer Mr. Rajmohan Gandhi was released amidst thunderous applause. The book with an attractive cover has more than 600 pages and is priced at Rs.650.
Historian Ramachandra Guha in his introductory note said it was “a major book by a major scholar” and added that “the book breaks new ground”. Choosing to question Mr. Gandhi on the themes of family and politics from Gandhiji’s life, Mr. Guha asked Mr. Gandhi on the Mahatma’s interaction with his wife and children, often perceived as harsh and cruel.
Because the Mahatma had taken up such a large undertaking for the nation, he had little love left for his family, Mr. Gandhi opined.
Mr. Gandhi said that the intention behind writing the Mahatma biography was to make Gandhi look more human. “The Sar
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Daniel Buren, “Observatory of Light” (2016), work in situ at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (© DB-ADAGP Paris / Iwan Baan / Fondation Louis Vuitton)
PARIS — Lacking any discernible content outside of context, the translucent, cheery façade of Daniel Buren’s “Observatory of Light” (2016) at the Foundation Louis Vuitton is another example of how once-radical conceptual artists have become co-opted and turned into spiffy designer-decorators. Eye candy-pretty variegated surfaces have been applied to both the inside and outside of Frank Gehry’s sleek building sheathed in curving glass façades, situated in the Jardin d’Acclimatation. Like any set of stained glass windows, our perceptions of their surfaces and the colored light they produce changes depending on the time of year and day and the amount of sunlight. Institutional critique, with its now historical status as counter-establishment, is the aloof calling card of the resultant lite light show.
Daniel Buren, “Observatory of Light” (2016), work in situ at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (© DB-ADAGP Paris / Iwan Baan / Fondation Louis Vuitton) (click to enlarge)
Buren is known for “examining” how an object or sign is transformed as it traverses physical and conceptual boundaries. As a young conceptual artist,
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