The Men Who Killed Gandhi -Manohar Malgonkar

30 January,A generation of Indians still reacts to these two words as to a piece of terrible news On that day in 1948, Nathuram Godse killed one of the greatest men of our times: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.Who was Nathuram Godse ?Who were his accomplices? How
did they raise the money and acquire the
Weapons and explosives? Above all, what
motivated these otherwise patriotic men to undertake this deed? And did the authorities have advance knowledge of the plot? If so, why did they fail to protect the Mahatma’s life? Finally, how did they arrest the culprits? Manohar Malgonkar provides the answers to these and many
other questions in this absorbing book which is an ideal example of the old saying: ‘Truth is often stranger than fiction’. Mr.Malgonkar was living in Delhi
at that time in a house situated only a few hundred yards away from Birla House. Thus,he is able to recapture authentically the mood of the times from his own experience.He has also reconstructed the
whole plot equally authentically by intensively interviewing all the surviving members of the original group.Seldom it ever,has a political crime which has had such a shattering impact on a nation’s
life been written about from the inside Combining his skills as a novelist and as a historian Manohar Malgonkar has produced a spell-binding non-fictional novel’.