Author: Rishvanth Reddy Mucheli

In his essay Three Disciples, B R Nanda wrote, “It would have been difficult to think of a more unlikely candidate for the discipleship of Gandhi in 1929 than J.C. Kumarappa” (Nanda, 2002). Looking at the phase of his life before meeting Gandhi shows that this proposition is beyond question. Joseph Chellandurai Kumarappa’s age was 37…