Anjum nayar biography of mahatma gandhi

“My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected.”

–Gandhi (Young India, May 28, 1924)

Sushila Nayar met Gandhi as a child and began working with him as his personal physician as well as an active member of the freedom struggle from 1939 till Gandhi’s assassination in 1948.

This was during some of the most tense and turbulent years of the struggle. Her brother, Pyarelal was one of Gandhi’s close associates and biographers. In an interview with researcher Fred J. Blum, Nayar tells an amazing story that highlights Gandhi’s humanity and fearlessness in the face of potential violence.

While the story is simple, I will spread it out over the next three posts in order to bring out three important features of Gandhi as a person and his influence on those around him.

It was in Delhi, just before Gandhi’s “epic fast,” in other words when post-partition violence had esc