Who Killed Gandhi?
This investigative documentary profiles the characters and circumstances behind the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. To date the killing has been treated as an afterthought in Gandhi’s rich legacy, a dark secret covered up, ignored and rarely examined. This report sets the events against a backdrop of an ideological battle pitting the apostle of peace against the global evil of fascism.
This investigative documentary profiles the characters and circumstances behind the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. To date the killing has been treated as an afterthought in Gandhi’s rich legacy, a dark secret covered up, ignored and rarely examined. This report sets the events against a backdrop of an ideological battle pitting the apostle of peace against the global evil of fascism.
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