The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An AutobiographyThe Story Of My Experiments With Truth is a bestseller which describes the ups and downs of the author’s life. This book is about the author’s experiments in his life, and how he developed himself as a person. This book instead of explaining Gandhi as a perfectionist, instead describes his many flaws and how he defeats his problems with his enormous willpower. The Story Of My Experiments With Truth is the story of a simple, immoral man who eventually transforms into a great freedom fighter. This book contains various incidents in this author’s life from his birth to 1920s. His time in South Africa as an anti-apartheid activist is also looked into. This autobiography begins when he was a common man and ends right around the time he became an international figure. How he became Gandhi is quite fascinating to read. His philosophies of simplicity, nonviolence, and truth are comprehensively explored. This book is easy to read as it has good translation. The Story Of My Experiments With Truth was published by Om Books in 2010, and is available in the form of a paperback. |
Contents
In Benares | |
Settled in Bombay? | |
Faith On its Trial | |
To South Africa Again PART IV | |
lLoves Labours Lost? | |
Autocrats From Asia | |
Pocketed the Insult | |
Quickened Spirit of Sacrifice | |
Experiments in Dietetics | |
Shyness My Shield | |
The Canker of Untruth | |
Acquaintance With Religions | |
21 fa + Ta TH 22 Naravan Hemchandra 23 The Great Exhibition | |
CalledBut Then? | |
My Helplessness | |
PART II | |
The First Case | |
The First Shock | |
Preparing for South Africa | |
Arrival in Natal | |
Some Experiences | |
On the Way to Pretoria | |
More Hardships | |
First Day in Pretoria | |
Christian Contacts | |
Seeking Touch With Indians | |
What it is to be a COOlie | |
Preparation for the Case | |
Religious Ferment | |
Man Proposes God Disposes | |
Settled in Natal | |
Colour | |
Natal Indian Congress | |
Balasundaram | |
The 3 | |
Comparative Study of Religions | |
As a Householder | |
Homeward | |
In India | |
Two Passions | |
The Bombay Meeting | |
Poona and Madras | |
Return SOOn | |
Rumblings of the Storm 2 The Storm | |
The Test | |
The Calm After the Storm | |
Education of Children | |
Spirit Of Service | |
Brahmacharya I | |
Simple Life | |
The Boer | |
Sanitary Reform and Famine Relief | |
Return to India | |
In India Again | |
Clerk and Bearer | |
In the Congress | |
Lord Curzons Darbar | |
A Month With Gokhale I | |
A Month With Gokhale III | |
Result of Introspection | |
A Sacrifice to Vegetarianism | |
Experiments in Earth and Water Treatment | |
A Warning | |
A Tussle With Power | |
A Sacred Recollection and Penance | |
Intimate European Contacts | |
European Contacts Conta | |
Indian Opinion | |
Coolie Locations or Ghettoes? | |
The Black Plague I | |
The Black Plague II | |
Location in Flames | |
The Magic Spell of a Book | |
The Phoenix Settlement | |
The First Night | |
Polak Takes the Plunge | |
Whom God Protects | |
A Peep into the Household | |
The Zulu Rebellion | |
Heart Searchings | |
The Birth of Satyagraha | |
More Experiments in Dietetics | |
Kasturbais Courage | |
Domestic Satyagraha | |
Raychandbhai 2 How I Began Life | |
Fasting | |
As School Master | |
Literary Training | |
Training of the Spirit | |
Tares Among the Wheat | |
Fasting as Penance | |
To Meet Gokhale | |
My Part in the | |
A Spiritual Dilemma | |
Miniature Satyagraha | |
Gokhales Charity | |
Treatment of Pleurisy | |
Homeward | |
Some Reminiscences of the | |
Sharp Practice? | |
Clients Turned COWorkers | |
How a Client was Saved | |
The First Experience | |
With Gokhale in Poona | |
Was it a Threat? | |
Shantiniketan | |
Woes of Third Class Passengers | |
Wooing | |
Kumbha Mela | |
Lakshman Jhula | |
Founding of the Ashram | |
On the Anvil | |
Abolition of Indentured Emigration | |
The Stain of Indigo | |
The Gentle Bihari | |
Faceto Face with Ahimsa | |