Word: parnakuti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...iron gates. Outside, a cluster of followers cheered him. Wanly he smiled back. He had spent 21 isolated, sorrow-steeped months in the Aga Khan's villa ; there his Boswellian secretary, Mahadev Dezai, and his loyal wife, Kasturbai, had died (TIME, March 6). Now he journeyed to nearby Parnakuti, the rambling, white stone residence of his longtime friend, the wealthy, widowed Lady Vittal das Thackersey...
...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...
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