Describes the last 18 days in Mahatma Gandhi's life and the events that led to his killing. This book deals with his murder trial, the real motive of his killer and what he said in the court to justify his uprightness. It reveals the victim's last words to put an end to all the tittle-tattle created by his followers soon after his death.

This Book seeks to portray the agony of father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi in the last night of his life when he remembered the role played by Congressmen in the partition of the country and decided to dissolve the Indian National Congress (in short ‘Congress’) as a political outfit and drafted a resolution for dissolution and reconstitution of the same as a non political organisation under the name and style of ‘Lok Sevak Sangh’ which would work for the welfare and development of seven hundred thousand villages of the country, although he could not succeed in his plan due to his assassination on the very next day i.e. in the afternoon of 30th January, 1948. This book also seeks to correlate the events relating to firm determination of Mahatma Gandhi to dissolve Congress, drafting of the resolution for dissolution of Congress by him in the last night of his life, his stay in Delhi for this purpose and his assassination

While the nation was celebrating Independence from British Rule and singing all praises for the ‘Father of The Nation’ – Mahatma Gandhi, the news of his assassination came as a shock. He was shot in the chest three times while he was walking towards the prayer grounds at the Birla House, New Delhi. The man behind the assassination – Nathuram Godse was a well known nationalist. He was arrested at the crime scene and sentenced to death after a year long trial. The book contains the final speech given by Godse in the court, mentioning the reason behind the drastic step he took.

"A deeply moving, funny, and brilliantly written account from one of India’s most original new voices." —Katherine Boo Like Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun and Alexander Masters’s Stuart, this is a tour de force of narrative reportage. Mohammed Ashraf studied biology, became a butcher, a tailor, and an electrician’s apprentice; now he is a homeless day laborer in the heart of old Delhi. How did he end up this way? In an astonishing debut, Aman Sethi brings him and his indelible group of friends to life through their adventures and misfortunes in the Old Delhi Railway Station, the harrowing wards of a tuberculosis hospital, an illegal bar made of cardboard and plywood, and into Beggars Court and back onto the streets. In a time of global economic strain, this is an unforgettable evocation of persistence in the face of poverty in one of the world’s largest cities. Sethi recounts Ashraf’s surprising life story with wit, candor, and verve, and A Free Man becomes a moving story of the many ways a man can be free.

Dhirendra Jha's deeply researched history places Nathuram Godse's life as the juncture of the dangerous fault lines in contemporary India: the quest for independence and the rise of Hindu nationalism. On a wintry Delhi evening on 30 January 1948, Nathuram Godse shot Gandhi at point-blank range, forever silencing the man who had delivered independence to his nation. Godse's journey to this moment of international notoriety from small towns in western India is, by turns, both riveting and wrenching. Drawing from previously unpublished archival material, Jha challenges the standard account of Gandhi's assassination, and offers a stunning view on the making of independent India. Born to Brahmin parents, Godse started off as a child mystic. However, success eluded him. The caste system placed him at the top of society but the turbulent times meant that he soon became a disaffected youth, desperately seeking a position in the infant nation. In such confusing times, Godse was one of hundreds, and later thousands, of young Indian men to be steered into the sheltering fold of early Hindutva, Indian nationalism. His association with early formations of the RSS and far-right thinkers such as Sarvakar proves that he was not working alone. Today he is considered to be a patriotic hero by many for his act of bravery, despite being found guilty in court and executed in 1949.

"This Book seeks to portray the agony of father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi in the last night of his life when he remembered the role played by Congressmen in the partition of the country and decided to dissolve the Indian National Congress (in short 'Congress') as a political outfit and drafted a resolution for dissolution and reconstitution of the same as a non political organisation under the name and style of 'Lok Sevak Sangh' which would work for the welfare and development of seven hundred thousand villages of the country, although he could not succeed in his plan due to his assassination on the very next day i.e. in the afternoon of 30th January, 1948. This book also seeks to correlate the events relating to firm determination of Mahatma Gandhi to dissolve Congress, drafting of the resolution for dissolution of Congress by him in the last night of his life, his stay in Delhi for this purpose and his assassination."