Mark Lindley is the ‘Professor of Eminence’ at Mahatma Gandhi Mission University, and has made world-class contributions to Beethoven studies as well as to Gandhi studies. He is the main author (together with three German musicologists) of a bilingual book cum CD, entitled (in English) Beethoven’s Variations for Piano, Opus 34 and published by Germany’s National Institute for Music Research in 2007. Serenade published in 2017 his outline – a super contribution to the literature of Schenkerian tonal analysis – of the compositional structure of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony. Dr Lindley’s recent books on Gandhian topics have included Gustav Le Bon (1841-1931), Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936) and Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) as Modern Psychologists (2018), Gandhi on Health (2nd edition, 2019) and An Account of the Historic Dialogue between Mahatma Gandhi and Babasaheb Ambedkar (2020).