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Narayan Desai
Indian Gandhian
Narayan Desai (24 December 1924 – 15 March 2015) was an Indian Gandhian and author.
Early life
The son of Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary and biographer Mahadev Desai,[1] he was born in Bulsar (now Valsad), Gujarat on 24 December 1924.[2] Brought up in Gandhi's Ashram in Sabarmati, Ahmedabad and Sevagram near Wardha, Narayan stopped attending school to be educated and trained by his father and other residents of the Ashram.
He specialized in basic education, spinning and weaving khadi.[3]
Initial years
After his marriage to Uttara Chaudhury, daughter of freedom fighter parents, Nabakrushna Chaudhury and Malatidevi Chaudhury, the young couple moved to Vedchhi, a tribal village 60 km from Surat in Gujarat, to work as teachers in a Nai Taleem school.
Following the Bhoodan movement launched by Vinoba Bhave, Narayan traversed through the length and breadth of Gujarat, by foot, collecting land from the r