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...Plank. Back in 1921 Brahmachari, like Nehru, came under the spell of Mahatma Gandhi, but Brahmachari became a sadhu, or holy man. He took vows of silence and celibacy, was jailed several times by the British (once along with Nehru), set up a camp on the banks of the River Ganges to study the Hindu epics, and wrote the first 60 volumes of a 180-volume biography of the Hindu god Krishna. One day last October he cried out: "He nath Narayan!" (meaning, "Oh, Lord God," the holy man's only departure from silence). An attendant brought...
...Trap. For 20 days he found nothing to eat at all. His weight went down from 190 Ibs. to 130. "My arms-were sticks, my legs were sticks," he said. "I looked like Mahatma Gandhi." He had twelve cartridges left for his pistol, and he kept them clean and shiny. He was determined, he told Communist Burchett, to use eleven bullets to kill Reds, the last on himself...
Emerson compared the death of Khan to the assassination of India's first premier, Mahatma Ghandi, shot by a Hindu fanatic. As in the case of Khan, Ghandi was killed by a religious fanatic of his own faith...
...somehow, Manilal did not seem to have the Mahatma touch. He cut a lone figure. Durban's whites, who in this year's census for the first time in history found themselves outnumbered by Indians, are more anti-Indian than ever. Manilal tried to sell his case to the Natal Indian Congress, founded by his father in 1894. But the Congress ignored their founder's son, and, led by the Communists, spent their time denouncing "American imperialism in Korea." Worst of all, Malan's government also ignored him, and proved that passive resistance might...
Women's fashions took on a new look, were bedecked with ribbons and yards of machine-made frills. The Wright brothers used a Singer to make the covering for their first airplane wing. India's Mahatma Gandhi, who learned to sew in a British jail, thought so well of the sewing machine that he exempted Singer from his ban on Western machinery. Despite the growth of readymade dresses, Singer's home sales kept expanding, largely because of Singer sewing classes which taught women to sew everywhere, even in the jungle...