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The Collected Works had all the known letters that Gandhi himself wrote; but virtually none of the letters that he received or responded to.

[In 2019, Hindustan Times marked Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th year with a special series comprising reportage, invited columns, essays and archival material.

On the occasion of the Mahatma’s birth anniversary on October 2, this article has been published from a curated selection of our coverage.]

The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG) run to one hundred volumes. Many years before I read these volumes, one by one, their Chief Editor, Professor K. Swaminathan, had satirised scholars like myself in verse:

Hundred hefty haystacks

Cluttering up the landscape

Hold within their entrails hidden

Half a dozen needles.

Researchers of the future

With fine-toothed combs

And salaries to earn

May perch on each pile,

Attack it and ransack it

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