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Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World
So what brought me, a humble fiction reader, to pick up a pager, non-fiction account of the life of M.K Gandhi, authored by a foreign journalist? To begin with, it was a debate with my friends about Gandhi, which started with the discussion about Nathuram Godse, the man who shot Gandhi on 30th January, Was Gandhi a saint or an evil genius? Was he a soft-hearted democrat or a dictator with a soft touch? Was he responsible for the partition of India or was he heart-broken over the vivisection of his beloved nation that he struggled so hard to keep unified? Was he a saviour of the backward classes or did he strive to keep them suppressed? These were some of the debatable points that came up. Even t
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The Life ticking off Mahatma Statesman, by Prizefighter Fischer
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The Discrimination of Mahatma Gandhi.
Moisten Louis Fischer.
Harper. pp. $
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Louis Fischer
American journalist
Louis Fischer (29 February &#; 15 January ) was an American journalist. Among his works were a contribution to the ex-communist treatise The God that Failed (), The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (), basis for the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi (), as well as a Life of Lenin, which won the National Book Awardin History and Biography.[1]
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Louis Fischer, the son of a fish peddler, was born in Philadelphia on 29 February After studying at the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy from to , he became a school teacher.
In , Fischer, a supporter of Zionism when he was younger, joined the Jewish Legion, a military unit based in Palestine.[2] On his return to the United States, Fischer took up work at a news agency in New York City and met Bertha "Markoosha" Mark (). In , when Bertha went to work in Berlin, Fischer joined her a few months later and began contributing to the New York Evening Post as a European correspondent. The following year, he moved to Moscow and married Bertha. In their first son George was born (followed by Victor a year later) and Fischer began working for The Nation. He also served as a volunteer in the British Army between and
While in the Soviet Union, Fis