Gandhi

As with Martin Luther King, I found it very interesting to read Gandhi in his own words. Although he originally wrote Hind Swaraj in Gujarati, he also translated it into English himself. In this short book (written in the form of a dialogue), Gandhi takes up the issue of swaraj, or "self rule." At th......more

Reader: I would like to know about Mahatma Gandhi's Socratic dialogue Hind Swaraj and the arguments he makes in it about Indian Home Rule. Editor: Clearly you are too impatient for knowledge but if you will pay careful attention, you may learn a lot from my wise words on this matter. Reader: This has......more

Had to read this in a day for class. Didn’t realize how many baller quotes Gandhi dropped on the regular. “Do you not tremble to think of freeing India by assassination? What we need to do is kill ourselves.” “Lawyers are men who have little to do. Lazy people, in order to indulge in luxuries, take up......more

Hind Swaraj is set up as a dialogue between the reader (you, probably) and the editor (Gandhi). Gandhi uses the reader to pose questions and advance the argument, but it also I think let’s him get away with setting up some straw men and then knocking them over. I do appreciate his full-throated defe......more

A very well written manifesto, though I disagree with many of his main points. Spent way too much time studying this book, if I never have to read it again it will be a blessing.......more