Friday, June 19, 2020

What kind of grocer did you say?

In an essay about the Indian leader we know by the single word Gandhi, Salman Rushdie offers this: 
His full name, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was memorably — and literally — translated into English by the novelist G. V. Desani as ‘Action-Slave Fascination-Moon Grocer.’

Do you know enough about your name to live up to all its meanings?

source:
Step Across This Line: collected nonfiction, 1992 - 2002
by Salman Rushdie
2002. Random House, New York

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