Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correspondents assigned to the East Bengal tour of Mohandas K. Gandhi have been holed up for the past fortnight in the remote Moslem village of Shrirampore. To get to the nearest telegraph office, they had to walk 30 miles. Even after this extraordinary effort, most of their dispatches missed the point: while deadlock and deterioration attended Hindu-Moslem relations at the London Conference, at New Delhi and elsewhere, Gandhi had turned his back on politics, was seeking a solution on another plane. A few weeks ago he was quietly advising on every move of the Congress Party...
...Bridge. At Shrirampore, in a region called Noakhali, he settled down in a small, tin-roofed cottage in a dense tropical forest surrounded by ponds, coconut and betel palm groves and paddy fields. He dismissed his retinue of ipo people except for a stenographer and a teacher, who thought Gandhi at 77 not too old to learn Bengali. Often at Shrirampore Gandhi sang Rabindranath Tagore's Ekla Chalo (Walk Alone). Out one day for his afternoon walk, Gandhi tried to cross a bamboo-stick bridge, slipped and was saved from a splash by his teacher. Murmured Gandhi (who rarely...
...between Hindu and Moslem, the Mahatma each day visited at least one Moslem family to discuss the spiritual causes behind communal strife. More & more Moslems (including 20 special bodyguards) were attending his prayer meetings. All the doctors in the section were Hindus and had fled during the rioting; Gandhi, whose medical theories include sunbaths, hip baths, milk and fruit-juice diets was tending the Moslem sick...
From Mohandas K. Gandhi's private secretary, anybody who was interested could learn about the setting of a great man's meditations. "The library" was what the Mahatma called his lavatory, reported the secretary. "It is not merely a matter of nomenclature," he pursued, "but it is so in fact. He has done more reading in his 'library' than an average man does in his lifetime. It is also the place where he has done some of his hardest thinking-I can recall at least three occasions when decisions of a most far-reaching character were...
Died. Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, 85, revered Indian scholar and Nationalist, champion of orthodox Hinduism; in New Delhi. A former president of India's Congress Party, longtime friend of Mohandas K. Gandhi, he helped to found and was the guiding spirit of famed Benares Hindu University, which has become the center of the ancient Vedic (Hindu) culture...