In November 1969 VINOBA BHAVE returned to Paunar, Wardha, after his successful campaign for Bhoodan in Bihar, and remained there till his death in November 1982. At the Paunar Ashram, many eminent persons like Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Frontier Gandhi), Gopal Swarup Pathak (Vice President of India), Jayaprakash Narayan, Acharya Tulsi, Dr. Sushila Nayar, Indira Gandhi and others met him and held conversations on diverse topics. The book presents in English translation some of these conversations held between November 1969 and 1971. An important conversation of Smt. Indira Gandhi with Baba of January 1974 is also included. It is hoped that these selected conversations covering a rich diversity of issues and personalities will be welcomed by all those interested in the historical and moral aspects of Indian life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vishwanath Tandon
Dr. Vishwanath Tandon (b. 1913) is a retired Reader and Head of the Postgraduate Department of History, K.G.K. Postgraduate College, Moradabad (.P.). He was associated with the Central Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, New Delhi for about twenty years after his retirement in 1973. Here he wrote the report of the work of the Nidhi till 1969, which was published under the title of 'In the Memory of Mahatma Gandhi'. He later looked after the Nidhi's English monthly 'Sansthakul'. Dr. Tandon's special field of study is Sarvodaya thought and movement. His English publications include 'The Social and Political Philosophy of Sarvodaya after Gandhi' (Sarva Seva Sangh Prakashan, Varanasi), 'Acharya Vinoba Bhave' (Builders of Modern India Series, Publications Division titled 'Selected Conversationso f Vinoba Bhave National Gandhi Museum, New Delhi). About a score of his research articles in English, some of them on Gandhiji, have appeared in 'Gandhi Marg', 'Radical Humanist', and 'Khadi Gramodyog'. He is presently working on an ms on 'Vinoba and Marx'.
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