The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s ‘talisman’, written just before his death in 1948, is popular and often finds its way in school books. It is often understood as

* The feeling of pity for the poor,

* A call for social service

* Absence of ego in humans.

Here is an interpretation that talks about the individual and her talents instead of a sense of pity for the society.