Can anybody give me the character sketch of Mahadev Desai from 9 Sparsh? Plzzz......!!!
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Mahadev Desai : Mahatma’s shadow
August 15, celebrated as the Independence Day, also happens to be the death anniversary of Mahadevbhai Desai, who was Mahatma Gandhi’s private secretary and chronicler of his day-to-day life for 25 years.
Mahadevbhai died on August 15, 1942 in Aga Khan palace, Pune, where he along with Gandhiji, Kasturba, Sushila Nayar and Miraben were kept under detention following the ‘Quit India’ ultimatum to the British. The ominous possibility of Gandhiji embarking on a fast-unto-death had weighed heavily on the mind of Mahadevbhai, which, according to Dr Sushila Nayar, might have led to hypertension and caused the cardiac arrest.
Mahadevbhai was more than a shadow to Mahatma Gandhi who had described him as his heir within a few years of the former joining him as his secretary. Mahadevbhai, the son of a poor primary school teacher, joined Gandhiji in November 1917 at the age of 25 and remained with him till his untimely death in 1942. He was only 50 at the time.