Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world owes you a debt of gratitude for the wonderful paragraphs on Mahatma Gandhi in TIME, Feb. 9. I have rarely seen such inspired journalism...
...Paid his respects to the memory of Gandhi (by sitting patiently through a 65-minute service at which Novelist Pearl Buck contrasted Gandhi's principle of non-violence with that of the "stupid men" who created the atom bomb) and to the memory of Lincoln (by driving to the Lincoln Memorial, watching two aides place a wreath at the foot of the Emancipator's statue...
Invitation to the Souls. But for a moment last week the festival tumult subsided. Through the tent city moved a truck with a raised platform draped in India's tricolor flag. On top rode an earthenware brown urn. Within it were most of the ashes of Mohandas Gandhi. Chatter was hushed as the catafalque moved slowly past...
...Gandhi would have disapproved of much that went on at the three rivers. Although an ascetic, he condemned the extreme self-mortification of holy men who lay (as many did last week) on beds of nails, or walked on beds of live coals, or twisted their attenuated bodies into knots. Gandhi had gone but a few times to the great popular Hindu festivals, sternly condemned the orgiastic frenzy and the exhibitions of extreme asceticism. Now, however, Gandhi belonged not only to the ages but to the people, and India celebrated his last rites in its own un-Gandhian fashion...
...Gandhi's son Ramdas poured sacred cow's milk into the urn of ashes, swirled it, then slowly poured the mixture into the water.* Gandhi's soul, according to Hindu belief, was at last free from its mortal prison. At the same moment, milkmen of nearby Allahabad, in a unique tribute, poured barrels of milk into the stream...