Gandhi, Modi and Jinnah

Sceptics and critics yet to be convinced that Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is the tallest Gandhian of our day at last have to contend with compelling proof of the man’s love and devotion for the apostle of ahimsa. Mr Modi may well boast in the days to come that he was the first politician to rise to the defence of nation’s honour by ordering a ban on Joseph Lelyveld’s book on Mahatma Gandhi, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India.