SIMPLICITY AND PURITY: POETS, FARMERS AND PARSIS OF GANDHI'S GUJARATI AND READING GANDHI IN TWO TONGUES

While a reader may strive to find Suhrud's collection of essays in the academic market with only some degree of difficulty, Orient BlackSwan in association with the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University presents a series "for students, scholars, and teachers of comparative literature, arts, and other humanities departments" with an ambition "to explore a range of histories, theoretical reflections as well as innovative approaches and concerns relevant to the field of comparative literature". [...]Suhrud's text is instrumental in understanding both Gandhi as a character and Gandhivaad as a performative aspect of an experience. Translation, in all its impossibilities, is a performance of reiterating both meaning and essence, if not the stringent form of the text. [...]Suhrud, almost in a Derridean model, deconstructs Gandhi in order to create meaning.