Thursday, June 20, 2013

The The village that was his kingdom

The The village that was his kingdom



'I am trying to become a villager," he (Gandhi) wrote on 6 July 1936 to Henry Polak, his friend and associate of South African days. "The place where I am writing this (letter) has a population of 600 - no roads, no post-office, no shop."

The move to Sevagram was the culmination of a chain of events which even Gandhi's closest colleagues had not anticipated; it also contained a message which is no less relevant today than it was in Gandhi's lifetime. 

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