A new book offers a startling new investigation on the political assassination of the Mahatma. The book titled The Murderer, the Monarch and the Fakir offers a fresh account of the events leading up to one of the most controversial political assassinations in contemporary history. In Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination story, there appears to be only one anti-hero— Nathuram Godse, but before him, a 20-year-old Pahwa, a refugee from Montgomery (today, Sahiwal) in Pakistan attempted to kill the Mahatma. He had witnessed the horrors and violence of the Partition, before he came to Bombay, and became a willing foot-soldier to kill Gandhi.
03 October,2021 12:00 AM IST | Mumbai
Sarla Mehta, granddaughter of close friend and benefactor of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Dr Pranjivan Mehta, is one of the few people alive who witnessed the assassination of Gandhi at very close range. Video by: Milind B Salvi, mid-day Story & video by: Team mid-day
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