Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Prof. Gopalkrishna Gandhi read English Literature and History at St Stephen’s College, Delhi University, India and, entering the Indian Administrative Service, held administrative positions in Tamil Nadu and at the national headquarters. Prof. Gandhi was Secretary to the President of India, Director of The Nehru Centre in the High Commission of India, London, High Commissioner for India in South Africa, Lesotho, Sri Lanka, and Ambassador of India in Norway and Iceland. He was Governor of West Bengal from 2004 to 2009. Gopalkrishna Gandhi is currently Distinguished Professor of History at Ashoka University in Sonepat, India.

Among his published works are Saranam—a novel in English (published by Affiliated East-West, Madras in 1985), re-published as Refuge (by Ravi Dayal, New Delhi in 1987); Dara Shukoh, a play in verse, (Banyan Books, New Delhi, 1993); The Oxford India Gandhi – Essential Writings ed. (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2007); Of a Certain Age – Twenty Life-Sketches (Penguin India, 2011); My Dear Bapu – Correspondence between C. Rajagopalachari and Mohandas K. Gandhi ( ed. Penguin,2012); The Tirukkural (translated into English) (Aleph, 2015); Abolishing the Death Penalty (Aleph,2016); Restless as Mercury: The Story of my Life as a Young Man – Mohandas K. Gandhi (ed. Aleph, 2021); Scorching Love : Letters from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to his son, Devadas (ed. with Tridip Suhrud, OUP,2022)