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Mohandas Gandhi helped India win independence from Britain through nonviolent resistance but little know that he credits the inspiration for his tactics to his wife, Kasturba. So, who was the wife of this renowned saint?
Starring Dipika Guha as Kasturba Gandhi and Samrat Chakrabarti as Mohandas Gandhi.
Source List:
The Woman Beside Gandhi: A Biography of Kasturba, Wife of the Mahatma, by Sita Kapadia
Gandhi on Women, by Madhu Kishwar, Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 20, no. 41
Why Mahatma Gandhi Said Kasturba Stood Above Him, Prabhash K Dutta, New Delhi, October 2, 2018
The Truth About Gandhi, The Harvard Crimson
Petty, Bad-Tempered Kasturba - What Gandhi Said While Courting Sarladevi and Esther Faerling, B.M. Bhalla, March 19, 2020
The Story of My Experiments With Truth, by Mohandas Karamchad Gandhi
MAHATMA, In Eight Volumes, by D.G. Tendulkar
Kasturba: A Biography, By B.M. Bhalla
Gandhi Was a Racist Who Forced Young Girls to Sleep in Bed With Him, by Mayukh Sen, December 3, 2015, Vice
Kasturba Gandhi, The Feisty Woman Whose Patience Inspired Gandhi's Call For Satyagraha, by Simrin Sirur, April 11, 2019, The Print
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