handwriting

 An unusual Letter
 written from Calcutta (now Kolkota) to his close childhood friend
 Gulabchand Vakhariya during an inspired moment
 September 18, 1921

Yes Kathiawar; I love you
A popular Patriotic Song
 1930 
Devidas Gandhi, an inmate of Sabarmati Jail, during the function arranged on the eve of release of another inmate Abbas Dada,
 recited the poem Somebody’s Darling by Marie Ravenal de la Coste.
 
  The recitation inspired him to spontaneously free-translate the poem into Gujarati.
and this indeed was accomplished even as his eyes, scrubbed just the day before, were sore and painful.
 
 Spreading beyond the jail-walls into the wider outside world the song soon became a hit with the masses.

A Popular Poem
1934


A Popular Lullaby
1928


A Popular Lullaby
 folklore

A Children Song
1932

adapted from Rabindranath Tagore's poem
Sonaar Taree
1931
adapted from Rabindranath Tagore's poem
Vidaai
1936
 
1942
The day each one of us, brothers and sisters, eagerly awaited was one's birthday.
And that for the most precious of the birthday-gifts one would receive from Bapujee --- as we called our father :
A set of his new books published during the year gone by, each signed by him.
It had become almost a tradition in the family.
 
We twin brothers, Mastanbhai and I, on one such occasion, were sitting beside him, one on either side,
after we had touched his feet and obtained his blessings besides an affectionate hug.
As he was signing the books we happened to notice something which prompted us to interrupt :
'How come, Bapujee, you are signing as "Jhaverchand"?'
   
He got the point, smiled and started signing the way we wanted him to do --- as shown below !

- Nanak Meghani
  

Kabir
Gorakhnath

Narmadaa-ne Teere Teere   ( Along the Bank of River Narmada)
his article on Narmada : one of his last writings
1947

1947
Letterheads
The Fountain-pen he wrote with The Case which once covered his Glasses

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