"The Architect of Satyagraha"

"Nonetheless, Lelyveld also writes, while he may have 'struggled with doubt and self until his last days,' Gandhi 'made the predicament of the millions his own, whatever the tensions among them, as no other leader of modern times has.' And, for all his inconsistencies, his dream for India remained constant throughout his life. 'Today,' Gandhi wrote less than three weeks before he was murdered by a member of his own faith, 'we must forget that we are Hindus or Sikhs or Muslims or Parsis. . . . It is of no consequence by what name we call God in our homes.'"

In The New York Times, Geoffrey C. Ward reviews Joseph Lelyveld's Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India.