Feroze The Forgotten GandhiBertil Falk (b. 1933) is a highly respected Swedish newspaper and TV journalist, who spent more than ten years of his life in India, England and the United States. His love for writing started with a short science fiction story, published when he was 12, he then did a few radio programmes when he was 15 and got a mystery novel published when he was 20. Since then he has worked for different newspapers, primarily Kvällsposten (The Evening Post) and from the years 1987–1989 he was in the newsroom of the Swedish TV3 in London. After retirement he has written about 35 books (fiction and non-fiction) and besides translating many mystery writers into Swedish he also translated and edited into English two anthologies of short stories by Swedish mystery writers. He was the editor of the cultural magazine DAST for a few years and contributed until recently for fiction as well as non-fiction to the internet-zine Bewildering Stories. He also filmed and produced video documentaries in Africa. For the past ten years, until recently, he produced community radio programmes for Trelleborg Sjöormen Rotary Club, where he is a member. |
Contents
My Quest for Feroze Bhai | |
Controversies and Feroze Gandhis Origins | |
Boyhood in Allahabad | |
The Rebel Finds a Cause | |
Eventful Days in Allahabad | |
From Boy to Veteran | |
A WellKnown Local Congress Worker | |
The Bumpy Road to Europe | |
Rae Bareli | |
Romantic Interlude | |
Changing with the Times | |
Maiden Speech and Giant Killer | |
the Scene of the Mundhra Case | |
A Guardian of Freedom of the Press | |
Upheaval in Kerala | |
Minor Skirmishes | |
London Years | |
Triumph of Will | |
Before the Wedding | |
Shaadi | |
Interlude | |
Quit India the Feroze | |
Last Time in Jail | |
A Journalist in Anand Bhawan | |
The Assassination | |
Lucknow | |
National Herald | |
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