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Children’s book on Gandhi on the best-selling list

AIMED TO INSPIRE YOUNG PEOPLE

Mahatma GANDHI is often imagined and portrayed as an elderly man, full of wisdom and wearing a simple loin-cloth.

However, the public rarely envisions him as a young man in a suit, shivering in the cold of a train station waiting room, unsure of his identity and confused about how to stand up to injustice.

This is the Gandhi that co-authors Kathryn Pillay and Stephanie Michelle Ebert introduce in their first children’s book: How to Stop a Train, The Story of How Mohandas Gandhi Became

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