About the Book: Remembering Pyarelal: Mahatma Gandhis Secretary and Biographer
Thirty-Four years after Mahatma Gandhis martyrdom in January 1948, his life-long
Secretary and Biographer Pyarelal passed away in October 1982. In an editorial
obituary, one of the national newspapers of India recorded the sad event as
"passing away of Gandhis Boswell".
This volume is the collection of tributes that were paid to Pyarelal by friends,
colleagues and admirers soon after he passed away in 1982. These were planned to
be published, along with a short biography of Pyarelal by his sister Dr. Sushila
Nayar, in the form of a memorial volume.
Due to unforeseen circumstances however the planned