Introductory Remarks for Jospeh Lelyveld, Written and delivered by Tara Needham April 3, 2012, Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, University at Albany.
"Gandhi is enshrined in many ways: in the dominant narrative of the Indian nationalist movement; in the theory and literature of peace and conflict studies; as the gaunt, bespectacled man draped in white, and as Joseph Lelyveld consistently point out in Great Soul, in the landscape and iconography of modern South African and India. It is this enshrinement that punctuates and propels his investigation into Gandhi with an urgency, lest Gandhi be enshrined to the past, to impenetrable and even dangerous myth...."
