| | | | | | | | |  | | | Our experiments with untruth | | Read |  | | | |  | | | Eminent people on the Mahatma | | View |  | | | |  | | | The letter that caused a furore | | Read |  | | | | | | | | | Farmer who sowed Gandhi, reaped wealth Read >> | | | What Gandhi's family has to say about him Read >> | | | | |  | | | |  | | | | Spinning of khadi yarn will no more be a monotonous work. One can now listen to music while spinning charkha and generate electricity that can be used when the power goes off –and even charge a cellphone. | | | | | | .............................................................................................................................. | | | | The day the Mahatma died | | Friday, 30 January, 1948, dawned like any other day, recounts V Kalyanam, his personal secretary who was inches away from the Mahatma when Nathuram Godse fired the shots at him. Yet he was never questioned by the commission which probed the assassination. | | | |  | | | | | |  | | | 'Gandhi misused me' | | “I didn’t want to become his secretary,” recalls V. Kalyanam, who served as the Mahatma’s personal secretary during his last days. | | | | | |