Ghandi’s rare speech in English surfaces in US.
A rare speech of Mahatma Ghandi dwelling on non violence, communal amity and the horrors of”multiplication of atom bombs” , has surfaced in the United States, bringing out of oblivion one of the only two recorded addresses by him in English.
The speech recorded on April2, 1947, just 10 months before the father of the nation was assassinated, was largely lost to the world, except some excerpts available on Internet.
A few years back,an Italian cell phone firm made a commercial using some parts of it.
During a recent US trip, Gandhi’s grandson and biographer Rajmohan Ghandi came across the recording of the full speech, preserved for 60 years by John Cosgrove, a former persident of the National Press Club who got it from Alferd Wagg, a journalist. Wagg recorded the address in New Delhi.
According to RajMohan, there were only two occasions when Ghandi had recorded speaking in English. The Washington Post reported.
Religious
The other speech, about religious issues was recorded in 1930s.
The speech visits the same themes that Ghandi is identified with: the importance of non violence, the eradication of the caste system, amity between the warring Hindus and Muslims and a world united against violence and exploitation
