Word: vinayak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...galleries" of the great museum. Another day, on a trip to Russia, he would be riding a pony furiously over the steppes. It is no wonder that, at the age of 18. he planned (and might as well have pulled off) the rescue from Brixton Prison of his friend Vinayak Savarkar, who today leads India's "extreme religious Nationalists-the Hindu Mahasabha" (Papa Garnett retrieved his son before the scheme could be put into effect...
Lifelong Celibacy. Vinoba Bhave was born 57 years ago to a Brahman (high-caste) family in Gangoda, a village in western India. His given name was Vinayak, but Gandhi changed it to Vinoba in later years, and the disciple accepted it as his name. At ten the boy began his career of holy man: he made a resolution of lifelong celibacy, gave up sweets and started going barefoot. Gandhi, who in young manhood was a lawyer and a comfortably married man, admired Vinoba's untarnished virginity. The Mahatma frequently said that his only regret in life was that...