Mahatma Gandhi Was "Quite A Complicated Being": Minister Hardeep Puri
NDTV
Referring to the content of the book, Mr Puri said there is a chapter in it about how India overtook the UK to become the world's fifth-largest economy.
The role and contribution of Mahatma Gandhi in India's freedom struggle is well documented and he was "quite a complicated being", Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday. With several friends from my college days & former colleagues as part of the distinguished audience, launch of the book ‘The Reverse Swing: Colonialism to Cooperation' by another good friend for the past many decades, Sh @AshokTandon Ji turned out to be a reunion of sorts! pic.twitter.com/wtxXMNVEoA
"He had actually asked for mobilisation of India's help for the war effort during the First World War," Mr Puri said.
The minister was addressing an event organised in Delhi to release a book, titled 'The Reverse Swing - Colonialism to Cooperation', authored by veteran journalist and Prasar Bharati board member Ashok Tandon.
