Word: hindusthan
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...doctors warned friends to spare him "all strain for some time to come." Gandhi's son, amiable, pudgy Devadas Gandhi, editor of the Hindusthan Times, did not feel optimistic. His father, he said, scorned medicines, relied for recuperation on massage, water and vegetables, and spiritual resources "beyond the conception of the Western world." But the old man was indomitable: at Parnakuti he climbed 70 steps, led a household prayer meeting on an open terrace, asked for war news: "Let me know what is going on around me. If I am to die, let me not die an ignorant...
...would regain strength for one more grand effort. They spoke hopefully of a meeting between him and the Viceroy, a meeting that might wipe the slate clean, win at long last the cooperation of India's nationalists in the Empire's war. Said Devadas Gandhi's Hindusthan Times: "... Though the communique says the decision was taken on purely medical grounds, we permit ourselves the hope that this marks a change of spirit which may show the way to understanding and good will...
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