Gandhi’s Autobiography in Two Tongues

Tridip Suhrud is a scholar, writer and translator who works on the intellectual and cultural history of modern Gujarat and the Gandhian intellectual tradition. As the director and chief editor of the Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust (2012-2017), he was responsible for creating the world’s largest digital archive on Gandhi- the Gandhi Heritage Portal. He has authored 28 books, of which include the critical edition of Hind Swaraj, Narayan Desai’s four-volume biography of Gandhi, My Life is My Message, and the four-volume epic Gujarati novel, Sarasvatichandra. His most recent work is a critical edition of Gandhi’s autobiography, The Story of my Experiments with Truth in two languages; Gujarati and English.

Chandan Gowda teaches at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He has translated UR Ananthamurthy’s novella, Bara (Oxford Univ Press, 2016) and edited Theatres of Democracy: Selected Essays of Shiv Visvanathan (HarperCollins, 2016). A Life in the World, a book of autobiographical interviews he did with UR Ananthamurthy is due to appear soon (HarperCollins, 2018). He writes regularly for newspapers, including a weekly column on culture and politics in Bangalore Mirror.