Ponsonby britt biography of mahatma

This book aims not only to offer new insights into Gandhi's experience and legacy but also to prove how Gandhian values are relevant to the.

Story of Mahatma Gandhi's life may be read as a pageant of his conscious courting of suffering.

A decade later, when I began teaching at UCLA, I wrote my first book about Gandhi, a fic- tionalized story of his assassination, published as Nine Hours to Rama.

Though still dressed as a British barrister, Gandhi now began to sound more like a Mahatma.

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A decade later, when I began teaching at UCLA, I wrote my first book about Gandhi, a fic- tionalized story of his assassination, published as Nine Hours to Rama.!

Jay Ward

At the peak of his fame, Jay Ward (1920-1989) was always being pestered with requests for his biography.

But he felt that his life had been so relatively uneventful-for the man behind Rocky and Bull winkle, one of the most groundbreaking and eccentric shows on television-that no one would be interested. To make up for it, he and co-producer Bill Scott created a fictional executive producer, Ponsonby Britt, O.B.E., with a bio to match the impressive name.

Yet Ward's own life was complex and interesting enough for the man who was responsible for the first animated cartoons made specifically for television.

He also produced the best television animation in almost four decades and helped create a number of characters that have become a permanent part of the American landscape.

From the beginning, his life was different from most.

He was born J (no period, he was to choose his own name later) Troplong (French, his mother's birth name) Ward in San Francisco on September 2