India, March 13 -- 'I venture to suggest to those who are professors of Hinduism, who hold Hinduism as dear as life itself, that Hinduism like every other religion has got to submit itself to the test of universal reason. In this age of reason, in this age of universal knowledge, in this age of education and comparative theology, any religion which entrenches itself behind Shastric injunctions and authority is, in my humble opinion, bound to fail' -- Gandhi, speaking at public meeting on March 10, 1925, in Vaikom, Kerala.

The year 2025 marks the centenary of a characteristic phase of evolution in Mahatma Gandhi's life. The 26th volume of The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi offers a glimpse of this. A 100 years ago, in February and Marc...