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Dec 11, 2011

Salha rated it:

بدأت بقراءته ، اعجبتني الصراحة والوضوح .. والكثير من الافكار الساميه لدية
سيره ذاتيه راءعه وملهمه اعجبتني انجازاته وكفاحه وجهاده لرغباته. والتزامه. بنذوره وحفاظه عليها في اسوء الظروف
اشعر انه جعل للقلم والحرف قوه كبيره حقق من خلالها اهدافه كتب وكتب وكتب حتى نال مايريده
اكثر شي ازعجني هو تعامله مع زوجته
خصوصا لما اوشك على طردها من المنزل في جنوب افريقيا
إضافه الى اجبارها على تنظيف مراحيض نزلاءه
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Dec 11, 2011

Hajer rated it:

أحب قراءة السيّر لأنها تمنحنا حياة آخرى و تجارب أكثر ,
و سيرة غاندي من أروع السير الحياتيه.

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Dec 11, 2011

Nawal rated it:

كتاب ضخم ان صح التعبير.. يحتوي علي تفاصيل دقيقة عن حياة المهاتما غاندي وسيرته الذاتية في حقل المحاماة وتجارب الدراسة في بريطانيا و العمل في جنوب افريقيا والبقية تأتي. بدت في البداية ممتعة، وممتعة جدا حتى أني تجاوزت المائة صفحة في مدة وجيزة، سرني أن أتعرف عن قرب على جزء من المجتمع الهندي وهم الهندوس وبعض عاداتهم في القرن الماضي..
الجزء الأول تحدث عن طفولته وصباه بشكل مركز ودقيق. وعن شعوره وبعض مغامراته.. ودراسته وزواجه المبكر جدا والذي أحززني كما أحزنه.. ومن ثم انطلاقه للحياة في بداية التجر More...

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Apr 03, 2008

Miles rated it:

In Gandhi’s Autobiography (which was hand written by someone else, but told supposedly word-for-word by Gandhi.) the book starts off with Gandhi as a child and his recollections. From here to his teenage years its pretty exciting and an overall page turner. I don’t want to give away anything, but his childhood was pretty weird in comparison to the American lifestyle.

Anyway I found that the chapters later on that involved his life in England overall drab and boring. Gandhi seemed to re More...

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Feb 02, 2008

Dan rated it:

Mohandas Ghandi, the Mahatma, did not set out to become a legend, or a hero. He just wanted to practice law to earn a living. He went to South Africa, counter to his caste's norms, to pursue a job. In South Africa, where he had a job opportunity, he discovered that the ruling class considered him a "coolie barrister" and not worthy of sharing a sidewalk with whites. At one point he was ordered by a judge to remove his turban because hats were not to be worn in the court room. He argued More...

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Dec 17, 2009

Apelger is currently reading it

I should probably wait till I actually finished the book to write a review. But I feel like writting now because I've got something to say now. I tentaivley picked up this book and that is how I am making my way through the pages. I've only just begun, Gandhi is about thirteen. But I find myself angry at him. I can't get through a page without watching his struggle with a thought, idea or truth. His life, from the very early stages, reveals his struggle towards ahimsa,non-violence, and brahmac More...

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Nov 12, 2009

Jeff rated it:

After seeing the movie biopic, I knew I needed to find out more about Gandhi so I picked this up. Don't let the width of the book fool you, it isn't a thousand pages like it appears. The translation of the book is actually pretty good and it reads easily. For the most part, Gandhi spends time talking about the little details in his life before he became famous. That is sort of the opposite of what you would expect in an autobiography, but as he says, his life was well known by then. This ma More...

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Nov 01, 2007

Janet rated it:

This was a fascinating read. Gandhi's writing is oddly simple, even almast naive in places. He faithfully records small personal struggles, giving them the same wieght as major political battles. Gandhi's zeal and idealism comes across powerfully, as does his lifelong concern with self-discipline and purity (bramacharya).

I was especially interested in his evolving understanding of satyagraha and his increasingly strict vegetarianism. His ascetism increased in direct proportion More...

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Oct 15, 2009

Jun rated it:

"Tak ada hal baru yang bisa kuajarkan kepada dunia. Kebenaran (truth) dan antikekerasan (non-violence) sama tuanya dengan gunung-gunung."

"...Tuhan adalah kebenaran."

"...Orang yang tidak murni hatinya tidak dapat melihat Tuhan. Karena itu, proses pemurnian diri tentu harus diupayakan dalam perjalanan hidup. Dan proses pemurnian diri akan mudah mempengaruhi orang-orang yang ada disekitarnya."
(M.K. Gandhi)

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Feb 02, 2012

محمود rated it:

مقتطفات من كتاب في سبيل الحق للمهاتما غاندي
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قلت لنفسي . اذا كان علي ان اكون وفياً لزوجتي فان عليها كذلك ان تكون وفية لي .. وتحولت تحت تاثير هذه الفكرة الى زوج شديد الغيرة حتى جعلت لنفسي من واجبها في ذلك حقاً مشروعاً يجيز لي ان انتزع منها اخلاصها انتزاعاً .. ولم يكن لدي من الاسباب ما يحملني على التشكك في اخلاص زوجتي واكن هكذا شأن الغيرة , فهي لا تحتاج الى اسباب ! و من هنا كان علي دائما ان اكون حذراً ارقب حركاتها وسكناتها ولا اسمح لها بالخروج الا بإذني .. فكان ذلك مثار More...

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Jul 23, 2011

Tyler rated it:

Excuse the ramblings of a mind coping to understand...this really is a book review...of sorts.

Yesterday, a man in Oslo set off a bomb that killed seven people then went to a kid's camp and killed eighty four young people. The world is sickened. Why do these things happen? Details are still coming out. At first I heard an Islamic militant group had claimed responsibility. Now it seems that the killer may be an extreme anti-islamic; a christian fundamentalist. What is clear is that som More...

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May 02, 2011

Pawan rated it:

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This is the first post I am writing on my blog where I want to write about the books that I have read and how they have changed my life or sometimes just given me moments of happiness in otherwise stressed life.
There cannot be a better book than “My Experiments with Truth” to start this journey. A book that helped me 20 years ago when I had read it for the first time and now again when I read it last month. The author of the book “Mahatma Gandhi” is More...

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Oct 23, 2010

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Sep 22, 2010

Aowei rated it:

I read this book for my literature circles, we were required to pick an autobiography written by anyone. Immediately the biography that came to my mind was Gandhi's. I expected the autobiography to blow me away with his philosophies and experiences.

It might be because of my young age but the book was very hard for me to read because there was plenty of detail but very little emotion and everything he did seemed very bland, I don't blame Gandhi and still have the same respect for him More...

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Jun 23, 2010

Venkat added it

This is a great book useful as a guide in your life. Hes truly a mahatma.After seeing the movie biopic, I knew I needed to find out more about Gandhi so I picked this up. Don't let the width of the book fool you, it isn't a thousand pages like it appears. The translation of the book is actually pretty good and it reads easily. For the most part, Gandhi spends time talking about the little details in his life before he became famous. That is sort of the opposite of what you would expect in an aut More...

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May 27, 2010

Michael rated it:

Gandhi's autobiography is one of those books that you just have to read, a story of developing oneself and raising the conscience of a people. The Mahatma (Great Soul, name apparently first used in relation with Gandhi by the great Indian poet Tagore) presents with a great deal of detail his life and development of beliefs such as vegetarianism (then fruitarianism), simplicity, brahmacharya (abstinence), non-violence, and pursuit of truth; there are also slight mentions of swaraj (right of self More...

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Jan 31, 2010

Matt rated it:

This was one strange autobiography. But it is this strangeness that, at least, made it original if not riveting. Gandhi's view of his own life is very different than the typical narrative of his life as embodied by the movie Gandhi. He spends very little time discussing his most famous non-violent efforts and instead describes in detail his childhood, his education in England, his philosophical musings, and as he calls it his "experiments with truth." So he talks about--among other More...

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Nov 08, 2009

Mike rated it:

I had trouble deciding whether to give this four stars or five. This book poses major problems for a contemporary western audience. It frequently alludes to another volume (Satyagraha in South Africa) which I have been unable to procure as a necessary companion volume. The final part (of five) assumes a more thorough knowledge of the birth of India as an independent nation and the events and persons that were involved in it than I possess. It becomes clear in this section that Gandhi was wr More...

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Jan 23, 2012

Harmonybites rated it:

Gandhi had a profound effect on history. As such, I thought reading his autobiography a must. I knew I had a lot of disagreements with what he believed, big and small, but his attitude as alluded to in his title disarmed me at first. He writes that "far from claiming finality or infallibility" truth is something he believes we seek and learn by testing. At first I found him likeable and admirable. I felt for his struggles with shyness and public speaking. But my respect for his views a More...

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Jul 31, 2010

James rated it:

Self-revealing, and fascinating to read alongside Erik Erikson's at-a-distance psychoanalysis of the saint, Gandhi's Truth (1960). The autobiography is full of surprises: At one point in his youth, Gandhi became convinced that India was behind the times because of vegetarianism, so he vowed to convert all of his homeland to carnivorious wisdom. Perhaps the only vow he did not keep.

Would that his teachings on non-violent resistance (satyagraha) were more widely applied. Detracto More...

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Nov 06, 2009

Angie added it

I owe Gandhi a big one, if not in this life, then in the next.

I was signed up to take a Gandhian Philosophy class and the stress of that semester came crashing down on top of me. It was past the point where I could drop a class, so I decided, in an effort to save my sanity, to suck it up and take an F in the Gandhian Philosophy class.

... Only, I didn't get an F. I got a NG. "Not Graded." And this was all fine and dandy until the next semester, my very last semes More...

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Apr 02, 2011

Robert rated it:

If the name "Gandhi" conjures up an image of some fantastical demigod of peace and tranquility, this book will solve that for you. It's Gandhi's own account of his life (written in the 1920s, so it wasn't nearly over yet[1]), and it reveals the inner working of a man who is constantly pushed by his own high expectations for himself and for all of humanity.

On the one hand, the book is frustrating, because it thoroughly demolishes the superhuman reality of Gandhi. On the other More...

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Jul 07, 2009

David rated it:

The version I read is an abridged edition, and was conspicuously short (I should read the unabridged edition, which might warrant more stars). Gandhi was clearly brilliant and saintly, and his dedication to truth above all (truth is God) proffered some clear and intelligent insights which I found salient. He describes his striving for truth as “experimenting with truth” and in doing so has found compelling evidence that is insightful and significant to his quest for truth. In approaching trut More...

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Oct 19, 2010

Jill rated it:

I thought I would enjoy this a lot more than I did. It was a bit too repetitive for me. There were some wonderful quotable quotes, and Gandhi led a very impressive life, but I was disturbed a bit with what I felt was missing. While he wrote endlessly of his diet and why he did or did not eat x,y, and z, he wrote precious little of his wife and children. He seems to have spent much of his marriage separated from them while pursuing education and a career. I was also a little exasperated with t More...

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Dec 16, 2009

Jason rated it:

What has always struck about Gandhi is his humanity: his refusal to view his life as anything other than an experiment with the truth, a life of mistakes and faults to be corrected, all in the service of others. Make no mistake -- Gandhi was no other-worldly saint, but a real man of flesh and blood who struggled with his temper and who toppled the British Raj with nothing more than satyagraha.

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Feb 10, 2012

Matthew rated it:

I admire Gandhi not for his religious beliefs (I am not religious in any way) but for his willpower to stick to what he believes. Therefore I wanted to read a book about his life and see what "made him tick" for lack of a better expression. This book was obviously written before his assasination and only goes up to a certain point of his life. While the book itself is interesting, it's hard to follow. It reads like collection of almost journal entry like chapters sometimes shifting More...

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Jan 19, 2012

Shashank rated it:

Satirical Spoiler Alert :
This book is not advisable for people looking to obtain advice on how to raise children.
This book is not advisable for people looking for diet ideas.
This book is not advisable for people looking to know about gandhi's part in the Indian freedom struggle as it is barely covered.

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Gandhi's autobiography was a hugely satisfying read.The look into his childhood as well as his aspirations as a young man are extremely pleasing.As one continu More...

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Dec 30, 2010

Paul rated it:

As much admiration as I have for Gandhi's works (or the majority thereof), I find his prose remarkably dull. What strikes me as most disappointing is the way in which the account of an extraordinary man seems to offer nothing in the way of extraordinary insight; observations on topics such as British racism and emergent Indian nationalisms could have been made by any other contemporary, and have been woven more artfully into a contextual narrative by many subsequent histories.

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Jul 01, 2009

J. rated it:

I hate to harsh on Gandhi, but this is just interminable. 200 pages in, and most of it has been details of his dietary regimen. I guess this was all integral to the way he lived and how he managed to have the discipline and strength to do what he did, but it’s not very widely applicable or interesting to read. And he skips right over the very stuff I most wanted to learn about, like the story of the Satyagraha movement in South Africa.

There is good and wise and interesting stuff inte More...

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May 28, 2011

Jijo rated it:

I cant agree with Gandhi for his non violence thoughts. If you have a stern right to fight you should do it by teeth and nail. The so called non violence concepts are only good to read.

Just think what we have earned by that non violence? Freedom for India? Is it only his non violence movements given India freedom? I think if there was no Subash Chadrabose, Bhagat Singh, Chandra Shekhar Asad then India would have been in clutches of slavery for some years more.

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