July 09, 1977
Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles
Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles by Ved Mehta (Viking; $14.95) Gandhi and Civil Disobedience by Judith M. Brown (Cambridge University Press; $32.50) The elephant is like a rope, says the blind man. It is like a tree-trunk, says another. No, it is like a snake, says a third. Thus Ved Mehta assembles his idiosyncratic reports on the elephant's epidermis, while Judith Brown meticulously measures it inch by inch. READ MORE >>
