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GANDHI – A Biography for children and beginners
without freedom there could be no self-fulfillment. He wanted a social,
economic and political order — national and international order — that provided
the opportunity for self-fulfillment, and preserved the right and power of the
common man to defend his freedom. It is this transparent love for the common
human being that made Gandhi what he meant to the common man. It was,
therefore, no wonder that when Gandhi died, human beings all over the world
felt that something had been wrenched off from them, that something in them
had ceased to exist, something for which they had yearned, and would continue
to yearn.
How did Gandhi, the shy young child from Porbander and Rajkot become the
symbol of the hope of the common man everywhere?
That is the story we will read in the chapters that follow.
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