Pyarelal Nayyar

Pyarelal Nayyar (1899–1982) was the personal secretary of Mahatma Gandhi in his later years.

Quotes

 * Gandhiji came to  the  conclusion  that  his  personality  was  acting  as an  incubus  and  smothering  free  self-expression  in  the Congress  and  thereby  arresting  its  natural  growth,  so  that from  being  ‘the  most  representative  and  democratic  organisation’  it  stood  in  danger  of  degenerating  into  an  organisation  ‘dominated  by  one  personality'  in  which  ‘there  was no  play  of  reason.’  They  could  never  realise  the  full potency  of  truth  or  non-violence  that  way.  For  that  they had  to  learn  ‘to  think  and  act  naturally.
 * Pyarelal Nayyar, as quoted from History Of The Freedom Movement In India, RC Majumdar, Volume III, Preface
 * Mahatma Gandhi The Last Phase Vol. Ii (1958) by     Pyarelal