![]() ![]() ![]() In his eight lines forward to the biography praising Azad for his Islamic scholarship, Gandhi writes, “His nationalism is as robust as his faith in Islam. The picture is of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the man whose story is told by Desai in Queen’s English. Inside the cover of the book, there is a black and white picture of a man with a Van Dyck beard, dressed in black up-button long coat, a white pyjama, black astrakhan cap and shawl slinging on his shoulders. The biography has been authored Mahadev Desai Gandhi’s James Boswell and personal secretary. It has a foreword by father of Indian Nation Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. In my small collection of biographies, there is a purple coloured hardbound, with pagesturned to smoke yellow biography published eighty-eight years back by George Allen and Unwin Limited, 40 Museum Street, London. In our generation, perhaps rarely any of one might have read it or heard about it. ![]() Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Telegram Share on Reddit Share on Email ![]()
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