In the shadow of freedom
Subtitle: three lives in Hitler's Germany and Gandhi's India
By: Laxmi Tendulkar Dhaul
Publisher: Zubaan; Zubaan Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9789381017661
Subjects: Nationalists; Biography; Journalists; History
Description: "In this unique account, Laxmi Tendulkar Dhaul--the dauther of Ayii and his third wife Indumati Gunaji--traces the turbulent lives of her parents and that of Thea von Harbou against the backdrop of Nazi Germany and Gandhi's India. The book describes how Thea, many years Ayii's senior, became his support and mainstay in Germany, helping him in his attempts to bring young Indian students to the country. Hitler's rise to power put an end to that effort, and, on Thea's advice, Ayii returned to India, where the outspoken journalist became involved in Gandhi's campaign of non-cooperation with the British, and where, with Thea's consent, he soon married Indumati, a Gandhian activist. Caught up in the whirlwind of Gandhi's activism, Indumati and Ayii spent several years in Indian prisons, being able to live as a married couple only after their release, managing thereby to comply with a condition Gandhi himself had put on their marriage--that they remain apart for several years."--Publisher description.