Kasturba Gandhi: A Bio Fiction

Kasturba Gandhi is the fictionalised biography of Kasturba Gandhi, a lady as strong and great as Mahatma Gandhi. A lady who earned a place in history because of her sacrifices and strength of conviction in what was right, as much as on account of being the wife of Mahatma Gandhi in his fight for fundamental human rights for Indians in South Africa and the Indian Freedom Movement. She was the first Indian woman who voluntarily faced a jail sentence on a foreign soil – in South Africa – in her fight for fundamental rights for Indian women. The book offers a glimpse into how a strong woman can empower herself while staying within the confines of tradition and convention. It provides a rarely portrayed facet of Gandhi – a family man, a father, a husband. It shows how his transformation from Mr Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to Mahatma Gandhi occurred with the support of a woman who was a silent partner in the struggle, how she helped him realise his larger goals at a cost to herself and her family in the greater interests of humanity. How she willingly courted jail terms in Africa, an alien land with no grip on the language and keeping her vegetarian habits intact. How she took up the causes started by Bapu, when he was jailed in India. How she breathed her last in jail – in Agha Khan Palace, where she was detained last.