Tulendra Verma: Introducing the kid holding Gandhi's walking stick

In our history books, we have all seen a photograph of a kid walking enthusiastically ahead of Mahatma Gandhi holding one end of his walking stick on the beaches. Though his name is never mentioned anywhere, he is Tulendra Verma, who later on, was known as Swami Atmanand. Tulendra was born on 6 October, 1929 in a village of Chhattisgarh's Raipur. His father Dhaniram Verma was a teacher and was deeply influenced by Gandhi's ideology. Perhaps this was the reason that Tulendra had an opportunity to meet Gandhi and to know his philosophies. Tulendra Verma was later known as Swami Atmanand.