GANDHI AS A YOUNG MAN
MK Gandhi’s autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, is famously incomplete, stopping in 1920. But while he gave up writing his memoirs, Gandhi continued to speak and write about his life, work, hopes and challenges. When knitted together, these autobiographical observations scattered across the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi make for a powerful story. “Restless as mercury” is how his only sister Raliyat described the young Mohandas and her accurate characterization provides the title of this work, which Gopalkrishna Gandhi reconstructed from Gandhi’s own words. This is an unflinching account of the experiences that influenced the young Mohandas. It shows how Gandhi kept his love of family in step with his sense of his public duties.