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    The letters of Sushila Gandhi: From press worker to managing trustee of Phoenix settlement in South Africa, 1927 to 1977
    (SAGE Publications, 2023) Mesthrie, UD
    On 18 March 1949, Sita Gandhi, the eldest daughter of Manilal and Sushila Gandhi, responded to a request for information from Louis Fischer who was writing his biography of Mohandas Gandhi. The 21 years old had taken over clerical responsibilities in the printing press at Phoenix Settlement where her father edited and published Indian Opinion, the paper Gandhi started in 1903 during his South African stay. With impeccable English and beautiful handwriting, signaling the importance of awaiting her father�s return from India, she added: �My mother doesn�t write English �� (Louis Fischer Papers, Box 3). Language, thus, coldly cut Fischer from accessing Sushila and rendered her mute