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...Bhagavad-Gita (sacred Hindu poem), the Koran and an Urdu primer under his arm, a garland of flowers around his wizened neck, he was taken in the commissioner's car to Victoria station. "Nice old fellow, that Gandhi," the commissioner said. The train chuffed on to Poona. There the Mahatma was imprisoned in the rambling stone "bungalow" of the rich Aga Khan...
...hear bad rumors about Director Shantaram. Every man from Poona and Bombay says that Shantaram has done such & such a thing. I am sure that he is not a person to do such a thing. I think that Mr. Shantaram is aware of his fame and would not have done that thing. So you must tell the public that Shantaram is innocent by publishing his innocence in the next issue...
...other hand, responsible Indian leaders do not wish to hamper the British war effort because the collapse of Britain would make India-like French Indo-China-the prey of the land-grabbing dictators. Meeting last week at Poona, the Indian National Congress Committee took cognizance of a tight situation when it adopted an anti-war but pro-British policy, elected as its leader by 192 to 7 votes the only man in India sufficiently astute to reconcile these two conflicting views-Mahatma Gandhi...
...next 25 years, badminton led a double life. In England it enjoyed a mild vogue as a socialite amusement for which the proper uniform was evening dress. In garrisons and officers' clubs in India where it was called poona, badminton was played more violently, took firmer root. Badminton's renaissance in England started soon after the War. In the U. S., where socialites had been playing dignified badminton for years, strenuous badminton did not put in an appearance until about ten years ago. About 1931, badminton began to boom. Currently it is the fastest growing game...
Since Mahatma Gandhi dropped his anti-British disobedience campaign and turned to such a forlorn cause as abolishing Untouchability, more and more of India's Hindus have turned away from him. In 1930 when he was all India's idol and a prisoner in the Poona jail, he whiled away the time translating from Sanskrit into English hymns from the Upanishads and other Sanskrit scriptures and from the Bhakti poets. Last week Macmillan Co. published his Songs From Prison. Samples...