Gandhi
Volume 1 : I Am a Soldier of Peace

January 2008 : 60th Anniversary of the death of Gandhi, a man renowned the world over.

How did this sickly, fainthearted, painfully shy Indian man become the great man we know?

How did this little boy, youngest of four siblings, torn between his father’s crazy ambitions and his mother’s strict religiousness, discover himself and carry the destiny of an entire nation ?

With a fluid verve that brings his images to life, Jose Freches takes us down an exceptional road, from the birth of Mohandas Gandhi on October 2nd 1869 until his assassination on january 30th 1948.

His childhood in India, his first feelings that an injustice is being done when faced with the Untouchables, the pariahs of Indian society, considered as inferior human beings by the upper castes ; the first humiliations he suffers upon his arrival in Africa because of racial segregation, and slowly, a growing certainty that he, an Indian who set foot on the Western coast to study law in London, has to fight side to side with his people against all discriminations.

By immersing ourselves in his day-to-day existence, as well as the more powerful moments of his private and public life, we discover a humble, yet determined man, in an eternal quest for truth and good, who won his battles one by one, armed only with the strength of his spirit, his will, and an unshakeable faith.

A gripping biography, which underlines the modernity of this great man. As the world is getting ready to celebrate the 60 years since his passing on January 30th 2008, his ideals and his battles have not lost their greatness, their power and their importance to the present.