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Kasturba Gandhi

Kasturba Gandhi

FromSignificant Others


Kasturba Gandhi

FromSignificant Others

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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Jul 27, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Mohandas Gandhi helped India win independence from Britain through nonviolent resistance but little know that he credits the inspiration for his tactics to his wife, Kasturba. So, who was the wife of this renowned saint?Starring Dipika Guha as Kasturba Gandhi and Samrat Chakrabarti as Mohandas Gandhi. Source List:The Woman Beside Gandhi: A Biography of Kasturba, Wife of the Mahatma, by Sita KapadiaGandhi on Women, by Madhu Kishwar, Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 20, no. 41Why Mahatma Gandhi Said Kasturba Stood Above Him, Prabhash K Dutta, New Delhi, October 2, 2018The Truth About Gandhi, The Harvard CrimsonPetty, Bad-Tempered Kasturba - What Gandhi Said While Courting Sarladevi and Esther Faerling, B.M. Bhalla, March 19, 2020The Story of My Experiments With Truth, by Mohandas Karamchad GandhiMAHATMA, In Eight Volumes, by D.G. TendulkarKasturba: A Biography, By B.M. BhallaGandhi Was a Racist Who Forced Young Girls to Sleep in Bed With Him, by Mayukh Sen, December 3, 2015, ViceKasturba Gandhi, The Feisty Woman Whose Patience Inspired Gandhi's Call For Satyagraha, by Simrin Sirur, April 11, 2019, The Print  
Released:
Jul 27, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (49)

Did you know that the novel "Lolita" would not exist if Vladimir Nabokov’s wife hadn’t stopped her husband from burning the manuscript? Or that Gandhi learned his legendary method of passive resistance from his wife? Or that the person responsible for Maya Angelou’s genre-defining memoir was her good friend James Baldwin? Significant Others is a narrated, nonfiction podcast about folks just beyond the spotlight of history. Each episode tells the story of a talented, difficult and little-known individual who altered the destiny of their better-known partner, child, sibling, or friend, and impacted the world they left behind. Narrated and written by Liza Powel O’Brien and featuring the voices of Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Jameela Jamil, Rita Wilson, Timothy Olyphant, Lisa Kudrow and many more.