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...Great Debate. Meanwhile, all India had gravely debated whether Desai's fast was in the true Gandhian tradition. Gandhi, who stoutly maintained that his own methods of fasting were "noncoercive," regarded fasting as a form of self-sacrifice and renunciation so extreme that it astounded one's opponents and led them to reconsider their own attitudes. "Fasting for the sake of personal gain is nothing short of intimidation," said Gandhi. "I fasted to reform those who love me ... you cannot fast against a tyrant...
Pears & Hazelnuts. For a while Gulek tried to counter the police with Gandhian tactics-simple handshaking tours. For the last 100 miles of his trip he abandoned ship and moved by car along the lush southeastern shore of the Black Sea, where the corn grows eight feet tall and string beans climb way up over a man's head. In this country, where peasants came out to the road to present him with such local delicacies as pears and, hazelnuts, the handshaking tactics worked well enough. But in towns, where clouds of policemen sealed him off from the populace...
...Gandhian ideal of satyagraha invoked the power of souls when souls were pure, but today's soul force rioting often stirred up by Communist agitators, is really only mass hooliganism. Addressing a crowd of 200,000 in Bihar, amid unprecedented booing, Nehru told students, "In Russia, I saw tremendous progress through discipline and hard work. But you want only chaos and confusion. You cannot even dream of how you would be dealt with in Russia...
...election, the 25 top leaders of Nehru's Congress Party gathered in nearby Madras, prop ping themselves up against cushions on a great white mattress. The Congressmen's names were big names of the Gandhi days: Govind Ballabh Pant, Abul Kalam Azad, Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar; the setting was Gandhian, in a tenement, and many of the leaders traveled to Madras Gandhi-style, in jampacked third-class carriages. But they were painfully aware that India's Congress officials had since drifted away from the people; the old men on the mattress could detect a mounting outcry against Congress officialdom...
...civil disobedience against the British, is walking through villages asking the landed to volunteer one-fifth of their acreage for redistribution. "Bheodan," or landgift, is an idea that may spur state governments to needed reforms. For to date Vinoba has collected over three million acres in his saintly, Gandhian way, and he hopes to have 50 million by the end of 1956. Tremendous problems of redistribution, gifts of fallow land, and the lack of accompanying agricultural improvements plague the Bheodan workers. But the collectors--especially in Gandhi's own village of Sevagram--have a faith that may very well achieve...