Gandhi, My Father

Gandhi has always been compelling, complex and strangely contemporary. Sir Richard Attenborough introduced Mahatma to the West. I grew up understanding Gandhi through others till I discovered a deep wound he carried in his heart," he said in one recent interview. "Somewhere in the shadows of the great man lived his son, roaming the streets of India like a beggar. He converted to Islam and became Abdullah Gandhi as a rebellion, then reconverted to Hinduism as a penance, finally drinking himself to death. Mahatma Gandhi could transform the soul of a nation but couldn't save the soul of his own son.