Manu Gandhi is a face you’ve seen, but probably can’t quite recall. You know that photograph of Gandhi you saw in school, one where he is accompanied by two women as he walks to a prayer-meeting, just a few minutes away from his assassination by Nathuram Godse? A young, teenage girl, who’d just lost her mother, she soon came to witness history unfolding — from fasts for India’s independence to Gandhi’s yajna as he strove for the ultimate truth

Luckily for us, she wrote it all in a diary.

This is a special three-part podcast to mark the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday on 2 October 2019. The podcast is based on the diaries of Manu Gandhi written from 1943 to 1944. Listen for a young girl’s ringside view of history and for a portrait of Gandhi you haven't seen in history books!