Sweet Springs Productions presents KASTURBA GANDHI: Accidental Activist, narrated by Naveen Andrews.
Now available on DVD or streaming on Video on Demand.
Starting March 1, 2023, American Public Television will distribute the documentary on public television stations (PBS). Check your local listings, or watch on PBS Passport, if you are a PBS contributor.
“Hooray! Another heroine. Thank you so much for Accidental Activist, recently viewed on PBS. I’d thought Mahatma was an exception to the rule that behind every great man, there’s a great woman. But of course, I was wrong!… I consider tellers of her story, such as yourself, as heroic.” –Michael J Regent, Medford, Wisconsin
YOU CAN NOW WATCH A TRAILER for the documentary-in-the-making about more of her amazing life story, KASTURBA GANDHI: Compassionate Activist. Coming in 2024!
WATCH AN INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR CYNTHIA LUKAS
1898--Kastur with three of her four sons and a nephew (left) in South Africa.
Photos contributed by GandhiServe Foundation
1913-Kasturba and Gandhi after her first Satyagraha campaign of nonviolent resistance for Indian civil rights in South Africa.
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1915-Kasturba Gandhi, wife, mother, activist, humanitarian, in her forties.
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1915-Kasturba and Gandhi after returning to India from South Africa.
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1926-Kasturba with her spinning wheel, leading Gandhi’s campaign to boycott British cloth and empower Indian women and men to make their own cloth.
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1930-Kasturba (far left) marching in Gandhi's Salt March to the sea.
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1934-Kasturba and Gandhi as they do their joint humanitarian work with dalit (so-called "untouchable") children.
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1938-Kasturba and Gandhi discussing Indian political affairs with their "fifth son," Gandhi's personal secretary, Mahadev Desai.
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1942-Kasturba at 72, the same year she is taken to detention for her activism during the "Quit India" campaign, where she will die.
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The story that has never been fully told . . . Kasturba Gandhi lived alongside one of the greatest men in history, but she has remained in his shadow—now she emerges. Gandhi himself said she taught him about nonviolence and called her “his precious jewel” of inspiration. The Indian nation, the largest democracy in existence, calls her “Mother,” but who was she, this Accidental Activist? And what is her connection to women activists today? History Missed This Story.
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