Here's what George Orwell said about Mohandas Gandhi

Excerpts from the iconic George Orwell's incisive critique of Mohandas Gandhi, his methods and his legacy reveal several unflattering truths about the Mahatma.

Introduction

THERE ARE NUMEROUS eminent reasons George Orwell is still regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. The most eminent among them is the fact that Orwell not only did not suffer fools but called them as such in hard-hitting, delicious prose. The second most eminent reason was the bullshit detector that he had carefully …