WHY GANDHI STILL MATTERS

Close to 150 years after he was born, how relevant is Mahatma Gandhi? In our country, he is revered as the Father of the Nation; his face still adorns currency notes, postage stamps and government offices; streets and welfare schemes continue to be named after him but has he been reduced to a mere symbol? Do his values, message and sacrifice have any meaning for us in the twenty-first century?

In Why Gandhi Still Matters, the Mahatma's grandson and award-winning writer and scholar Rajmohan Gand