Report by Santanu Ganguly, New Delhi: In the early nineteen thirties Ayi Tendulkar, a young journalist from a small town in Maharashtra, travelled to Germany to study. After a while he met and married the filmmaker Thea von Harbou, divorced wife of Fritz Lang.
Many years his senior, Thea became Tendulkar's support and mainstay in Germany, encouraging and supporting him in bringing other young Indian students to the country. Hitler's coming to power put an end to all that, and on Thea von Harbou's advice, Tendulkar returned to India, where he became involved in Gandhi's campaign of non-cooperation with the British and where, with Thea's consent, he soon married Indumati Gunaji, a Gandhian activist.
Caught up in the whirlwind of Gandhi's activism, Indumati and Tendulkar spent several years in Indian prisions, being able to come together as a married couple only after their release – managing thereby to comply with a condition that Gandhi had put to their marriage, that they remain apart for several years 'to serve the nation'.
In this unique account, Indumati and Tendulkar's daughter, Laxmi Tendulkar Dhaul, traces the turbulent lives of her parents and Thea von Harbou against the backdrop of Nazi Germany and Gandhi's India, using a wealth of documents, letters, newspaper articles and photographs to piece together the intermeshed histories of two women, the man they loved, their own growing friendship and two countries battling with violence and non-violence, fascism and colonialism.
THE AUTHOR
Laxmi Tendulkar Dhaul is the daughter of the two protagonists Indumati Gunaji and Ayi Tendulkar. She has a Masters in Biochemistry from Mumbai University. She is the author of two books on Sufism and the founder of Prithvi Media, a platform that creates and promotes original content through different media, such as books and animated films.
Three lives in Hitler's Berlin and Gandhi's India
Book Launch
Reading: Maya Krishna Rao
Talk: Dileep Padgaonkar and Laxmi Tendulkar Rao
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 3, 2013; 7 pm
Venue: Library, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
Entry free
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| In the Shadow of Freedom |
Caught up in the whirlwind of Gandhi's activism, Indumati and Tendulkar spent several years in Indian prisions, being able to come together as a married couple only after their release – managing thereby to comply with a condition that Gandhi had put to their marriage, that they remain apart for several years 'to serve the nation'.
In this unique account, Indumati and Tendulkar's daughter, Laxmi Tendulkar Dhaul, traces the turbulent lives of her parents and Thea von Harbou against the backdrop of Nazi Germany and Gandhi's India, using a wealth of documents, letters, newspaper articles and photographs to piece together the intermeshed histories of two women, the man they loved, their own growing friendship and two countries battling with violence and non-violence, fascism and colonialism.
THE AUTHOR
Laxmi Tendulkar Dhaul is the daughter of the two protagonists Indumati Gunaji and Ayi Tendulkar. She has a Masters in Biochemistry from Mumbai University. She is the author of two books on Sufism and the founder of Prithvi Media, a platform that creates and promotes original content through different media, such as books and animated films.
Three lives in Hitler's Berlin and Gandhi's India
Book Launch
Reading: Maya Krishna Rao
Talk: Dileep Padgaonkar and Laxmi Tendulkar Rao
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 3, 2013; 7 pm
Venue: Library, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
Entry free
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