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...career in 1917 to join Gandhi's nonviolent independence movement, endure 4½ years of British imprisonment, and ever after led a rigidly Spartan life of vegetarianism, 3 a.m. yoga exercises, and daily sessions spinning cotton, the symbolic task that characterizes a Gandhian follower; of pneumonia; in Patna, India...
...shouting slogans and forcing offices, shops, restaurants, banks and movie houses to close. A mob of 100,000 paraded from New Delhi's Red Fort to Ramlila ground, where Nehru often addresses open-air meetings. But this time it was Communists who harangued them. In Calcutta and in Patna the picture was similar. With suspicious spontaneity the rioters, in many cases led by Communists, denounced the Nehru government for not backing the satyagrahis and demanded that troops be sent into...
...cart. In Chandil, a small village, he collapsed and was put to bed, but he refused all medication. "God," he said, "either wants to free me or desires to purify this body for employing it again in His work." He also refused to be taken to a hospital in Patna, the state capital. Said he: "Do not people also die in Patna...
That got Kripalani sore, and he turned on Nehru. Last week Kripalani, having seceded from the Congress Party, met with 1,000 delegates from all over India on the banks of the Ganges in Patna (capital of famine-stricken Bihar province); they formed a new party of their own, named it the People's Party...
...feudal days when the spirit of France shot up and gushed forth like a fountain. That "honor and sainthood are his two absolutes" reminds me of that French sea captain in Conrad's Lord Jim, who on diagnosing Jim's trouble in the Patna affair, finishes "the honor, monsieur! . . . The honor . . . that is real" and goes away-his shabby cape swinging...