This book explores the relevance of M.K. Gandhi in the present times. Justice, human rights, conflict, and peace building, along with his alternative method of non-violent resistance or Satyagraha are focal to it. The essays in this volume focus on his inner strength, brotherhood, and self-discipline. His persona becomes a site for discourse in the post-colonial era. Ideas on food, dress and living are included in this study and also his impact on world literature. His philosophical ideals and spiritual experiences refl ect his views on truth, identity, and nationhood. This book covers the impact of Gandhian thoughts on late-capitalism, neo- colonialism and post-truth. It opens debates on many signifi cant issues troubling mankind. It will be of interest to scholars of postcolonial literature, gender and cultural studies.

Ranu Uniyal is Professor of English at Lucknow University. She is currently Head, Department of English and Modern European Languages. She was awarded Commonwealth Scholarship for Ph.D. in English from Hull University, U. K. Her main research interests are in Indian literature, Women's writing, Postcolonial literature and Disability Studies. She is the author of Women and Landscape: The Fiction of Margaret Drabble and Anita Desai; Poems: Across the Divide; Raja Rao's Kanthapura: A Critical Study(co-edited); Women in Indian Writing: From Difference to Diversity; December Poems; Poems: The Day We Went Strawberry Picking In Scarborough. She is also one of the founding members of PYSSUM (www. pyssum.org) a charitable organization for children with special needs in Lucknow.