1. Moorthy; spokesman of Gandhian Virtue
Name: Jitendra V. Sumra
Roll No. : 16
Semester : 03
Year : 2012-13
Paper No. : 104
Paper Name : Indian Writing In English
Dept Of English
Maharaja KrishnkumarSinhji Bhavnagar University

2. Moorthy
• Moorthy Or Moorthappa is an educated Youngman of
Kanthapura. It is he who organizes the work of the
Congress in the village and hence he is the central
figure in the novel.
• He is an ordinary Youngman, with common human
weaknesses.

3. • He is one of those thousands of Youngman who were
inspired by Mahatma Gandhi to give up their studies, risk
the wrath of their government and became fighters for the
cause of their motherland.
• He is called “Corner-house” Moorthy, “Our Moorthy”,
Moorthy who has gone through life like a noble cow,
quite, generous, deferent, Brahmin, a very Prince”.
• He is considered to be an honest like an elephant and is
spoken of as “our Gandhi”, “The saint of our village”.
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4. Impact of Gandhi's Personality
• Its Seems that the impact of Gandhi’s personality has
transformed him from a common village lad, into a
Youngman capable of leadership, and the self-sacrifice
and devotion which leadership entails.
• He was just past twenty-five, himself deeply involved to
the extent of being obsessed with Gandhian as well as his
search for a Guru.

5. • He has extraordinary capacity for inspiring the
people. On his return from the city he at once
proceeds to organized the Gandhi work in the village.
• “ The Gandhian struggle for independence had three
strands- Political ,Religious, Social, and all these
strands meet in Moorthy”. He works on all these
levels.

6. Moorthy; Organizes the Gandhi work in the Village.
• It is he Moorthy who organized the Gandhi work in
the village and he shows a rare devotion and insight
for a village youth.
• He goes from door to door to carrying the message of
Mahatma Gandhi.

7. It is he who explains the economy of the khaddi
and the importance of the “charkha” to the
ignorant and superstition ridden women of the
village,and persuades them to take to spinning
despite stiff opposition from all quarters.

8. Like gandhi,moorthy, too undertakes a fast ,organises
picketing and satyagrahs,court arrest and is sent to jail
throughout, he is shown to be an ideal Gandhi.

9. Here is moorthy ,a Gandhi man who has preached
brotherhood and equality and castelessness and
abolition of untouchability.