May 5, 2005

And believe me, it takes a lot for Gandhi's followers to complain . . .

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Complaints by the Gandhi Peace Foundation and the Albert Einstein Institution have prompted the Indian government to form a committee to investigate its 1999 edition of the collected works of Mahatma Gandhi, which it plans to publish in a second edition and on CD ROM, according to a brief report in the Garavi Gujarat. An official source is quoted as saying that “The government has taken a serious view of the matter and has formed a three-member committee, comprising eminent personalities, to look into it.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

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