The author came to know of Gandhiji’s death by (a) a letter (b) a telephone call (c) a telegram (d) a public broadcast

(b) a telephone call

Context from the Chapter:

“I was having tea at home on the evening of 30ᵗʰ January, 1948, when I was called to Birla House by an urgent telephone. Gandhiji had been shot on his way to a prayer meeting.”