Kasturba Gandhi is the
fictionalised biography of Kasturba Gandhi, a lady as strong and great as
Mahatma Gandhi. A lady who earned a place in history because of her personal
sacrifices and strength of conviction in what was right as much as on account
of being the wife of Mahatma Gandhi in his fight for basic human rights for
Indians in South Africa and the Indian Freedom Movement. She was the first
Indian woman who voluntarily faced a jail sentence in a foreign soil – in South
Africa – in her fight for basic rights for Indian women.
The book gives a glimpse of how a strong woman can empower herself
staying within the folds of tradition and convention. It offers a rarely
portrayed facet of Gandhi – a family man, a father, a husband. It shows how his
transformation from Mr Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to Mahatma Gandhi happened
with the support of a woman who was a silent partner in the struggle. How she
let him realise his larger goals at a cost to herself and family in the larger
interests of mankind. How she willingly courted jail terms in Africa, an alien
land with no grip on the language and keeping her vegetarian habits intact. How
she took up the causes started by Bapu, when he was jailed in India and was
imprisoned. How she breathed her last in jail - in Agha Khan Palace where she
was jailed last.