Mahatma Gandhi -An Inspiration in the Literary World

  Barnali Baruah

Mahatma Gandhi is the world’s greatest teacher of mankind. Gandhiji was an iconic writer who has captured the imagination of writers of different genres from poetry, prose, fiction to non-fictions. He is an immense source of writing himself and has influenced different disciplines. Mahatma Gandhi, a man who has been much discussed and written about, authored many works of literature. They were collections of his articles and speech on truth and Ahimsa, Swadeshi and Charkha or of his addresses to women, students and princes. Many writers from different fields like history, politics, philosophy, literature, sociology etc. have Gandhiji as their central themes. His style of writing was simple, precise, clear and devoid of artificialities as his own life. Gandhiji’s writings convey his earnest desire that the world should follow his beliefs and non - violent techniques for world peace and harmony. His journalistic writings upheld him as a classic media man. A.S. Ayengar wrote, “There was not only a new thought but a new language in newspaper writing and what he wrote was the best in political thought and finest in journalistic writings. No editor could escape being influenced by Gandhiji’s writings”.

Keywords- Writer, Media man, Journalistic, Truth, Non-violent.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR2104002
Page Number(s) - 5-8
Pubished in - Volume 9 | Issue 4 | October 2021
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -    http://doi.one/10.1729/Journal.28353
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Barnali Baruah,   "Mahatma Gandhi -An Inspiration in the Literary World", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.9, Issue 4, pp.5-8, October 2021, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR2104002.pdf