An autobiography (2001)
An autobiography is a 2001 biography & autobiography book written by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
Subtitled The Story of My Experiments with Truth, this is Gandhi writing his own life, not as a triumphant hero but as a man testing ideas on himself. He moves from a shy childhood in Gujarat, through law studies in London, to the years in South Africa where his methods of nonviolent resistance took shape. He is candid about his failures, his fears, his struggles with food, faith, and desire. The prose is plain and searching. It stays close to one restless conscience trying to live by principle, honest about the daily doubts behind the public legend.
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What is An autobiography about?
Subtitled The Story of My Experiments with Truth, this is Gandhi writing his own life, not as a triumphant hero but as a man testing ideas on himself. He moves from a shy childhood in Gujarat, through law studies in London, to the years in South Africa where his methods of nonviolent resistance took shape. He is candid about his failures, his fears, his struggles with food, faith, and desire. The prose is plain and searching. It stays close to one restless conscience trying to live by principle, honest about the daily doubts behind the public legend.
When was An autobiography published?
An autobiography was published in 2001.
Who made An autobiography?
An autobiography was written by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
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Richard Attenborough's Gandhi is the natural next step, dramatizing on an epic scale the same life this book narrates quietly from the inside. The film gives you the crowds, the marches, and the sweep of history, while the autobiography stays close to the private doubts and daily disciplines behind them.
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Gandhi's life was one long argument for conscience over comfort. These films and books circle the same ground of injustice and moral reckoning: Attenborough's Gandhi, the widows of Deepa Mehta's Water, the overlooked women of Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, and Commodore Perry forcing open a closed Japan.