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Mahadev Haribhai Desai (1 January 1892 – 15 August 1942) was an Indian independence activist, scholar and writer best remembered as Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary. He has variously been described as "Gandhi's Boswell, a Plato to Gandhi's Socrates, as well as an Ānanda to Gandhi's Buddha".
A sincere and disciplined man, Mahadev Desai had become what he could, passing through all the tests of life. He had gathered everything in his final moments of sacrifice. Handsome, good humored and noble at heart, he won the acclaim of all the major leaders of India.
Mahadev Desai — or Mahadevbhai as he was called — could not fulfil his lifelong desire to write Mahatma Gandhi’s biography because of his untimely death on August 15, 1942, aged 50, while imprisoned in the Aga Khan Palace in Pune.
Mahadev R. Desai is the president of the Sayaji Vaibhav Public Library Navsari. He was the Honorary Secretary of the Vanche Gujarat campaign of the government of Gujarat (2010-2011).
From 1917 till his passing in 1942, Mahadev Desai served as Gandhi's private secretary. His diaries are regarded as a gold mine of information since they provide unique access to the whole campaign for India's liberation movement as well as other important events.
Mahadev Desai joined Gandhi at 25 as his secretary and maintained diaries that offer a rare insight into the mind of the most secular leader India has seen | Latest News India.
Mahadev Haribhai Desai (1 January 1892 – 15 August 1942) was an Indian independence activist, scholar and writer best remembered as Mahatma Gandhi’s personal secretary. He has variously been described as “Gandhi’s Boswell, a Plato to Gandhi’s Socrates, as well as an Ananda to Gandhi’s Buddha”.
