Gandhism Pulitzer Prize winning author and journalist Joseph Lelyvelds book Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and

His Struggle With India has brought back into focus the magnanimous figure that has never stopped fascinating even the critics, more than 60 years after he was shot dead, Mahatma Gandhi. The Gujarat government has banned the book. Would Gandhi, the advocate of free speech, be happy with such a move of the State if he were alive today? India attained Independence not before the country was scarred by foreign rule for centuries. Freedom fighters like Mahatma Gandhi fought with courage and sowed the seeds of a free, independent and vibrant India that could re-claim its rightful place in the world. Mahatma Gandhi was a self-created man who held high moral grounds throughout his life. His philosophy of Ahimsa has takers all around the world and it is not easy to understand him by just reading a few books. Gandhism is a way of life.