Seeking in M K Gandhi, an Inquirer of Science

Abstract

There is no gainsaying an emerging reality about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi being more attended to, rather delineated in depth more than what it used to be so during his lifetime. His one hundred and fifty birthday occasions, to be over soon, keep on wriggling out variegated Gandhian facets. His ‘Autobiography’ continues to be the bedrock of entrepreneurial ventures in such directions. Gandhiji could hardly allow himself to a single caption. He did put up an alternative, relating to experiments, thereby indicating a gaze at realms of science. Gandhiji wound up the title, with the word ‘truth’, which he kept on expounding in the text itself, to the extent developable. Before one proceeds further, one cannot but get oneself stuck up with an ‘OR’ in the title. Doesn’t it have the overtone of an alternative ? Incontestably, alternatives are often impeccably sought for, by an inquirer in mathematics and geometry, in particular. Indeed, in the Autobiography, Gandhi mentioned about his keen alignments for some geometrical propositions, in his school days.