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iiMahaswapnam MAHATMA GANDHI(A collection of editorials written by V. R. Narladuring 1944-'73 in Telugu dailies Andhra Prabha and Andhrajyothi)

Edited by Dr. Nagasuri Venugopal

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"....... With his nose for news, his gift for apt headlines, his flair for pagemake-up, his readiness to learn from every thing and every body and his zest forlife...."

"....... It was heighted by two of his distinctive attributes, intellectual and

moral probity, and perseverance in the spirit of the workman through all phasesof responsibility. Narla is a devil for work because he had the good luck ofstumbling on life's great secret of realising joy and happiness in hard work ...."

"Narla has the supreme advantage ofbeing a writing editor (which is not the fashion these days) and bringing to thepower of argument the beauty of words. In him are allired the militancy of acrusadar and the mellowness of a craftsman..."

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'...Precisely for this reason, a superficial reading of Hind Swarajcan make readers misjudge the book and rainforce their misconceptionsand prejudices about Gandhi's views on science, technology andmodernisation. In the excellent centernary edition of Gandhi: HindSwaraj and Other Writings, Anthony J. Parel, who edited it, writes: 'Noother question treated in Hind Swaraj has provoked so much contro-versy as has the question of machinery - in the current idiom, technology.As mentioned earlier, many people continue to think that Gandhi's thoughtsin Hind Swaraj on technology and instrialisation are antiquated. Thisexplains the tepid response of the Indian government and Indian politicalparties, including the Congress, to the centenary of the publication of thisbook. I was surprised to find even Rajmohan Gandhi, the Mahatma'sscholarly grandson and author of many superb books, declare that HindSwaraj is a text for its times, not a text for all time...'

Music of the Spinning Wheel "Gandhi!The man, His people and the Empire"

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“...was not a romantic or a mystic out to spiritualize machinery, but to intro-duce a human or a human spirit among the man behind the machinery.”

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