Gopalkrishna Gandhi

2 weeks ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Gopalkrishna Gandhi |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy

It is in the epilogue to this luminous and exquisitely written “personal history” that Gopalkrishna Gandhi (“Gopu” to me) gets around to explaining his strangely inconsistent title, The Undying Light—in the stark reality of the gathering darkness of India today, we see reason retreating and blind faith taking over—by saying: “India’s human truth… is its very soul”; ergo, “India’s light can dim; it cannot, will not die.” Such flights of overblown metaphysics are not necessary as the mundane...