Word: charka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gandhi broke his shell. He decided manual labor was essential to the good life; he still thinks Indians will find peace only through making their own clothes on the charka (spinning wheel). So he gave up a legal practice bringing in about ?5,000 a year, moved to a farm settlement where his helpers worked the ground, and began to get out a newspaper, Indian Opinion...
When in jail, Nehru finds that "spinning on the charka (spinning wheel) and weaving niwar" (cotton webbing) "are delightfully soothing." Yet on the death of his father he does not quote the Vedas, but Edgar Allan Poe: "Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor even unto death utterly, save by the weakness of his feeble will...
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