The Week India – June 30, 2019

when gandhi
started living in
shegaon near
wardha, a boy
called Govind
generally
prepared food
for him. he was
an untouchable
by caste.

Gandhi was time

Magazine’s Man of

the Year in 1930.

In another

cover story three

months later, TIME

described him

as a saint.

When charlie Chaplin sought a meeting in

1931, Gandhi told his associates that he had

not heard of Chaplin. They assured him of

the actor’s popularity and a meeting was

arranged. The two met at Dr chuni Lal

Katial’s house in East End, London.

When gandhi returned to india from

south africa he brought with him an

untouchable boy named Naiker. He also

adopted an untouchable girl called

Lakshmi as his daughter.

He married lakshmi to

a brahmin boy in 1933.

in 1928

gandhi euthenised an

incurable calf

in his ashram.

THE

FATHER

THE

CASTELESS

THE

MERCY

KILLER

THE

IGNORAMUS

THE

SAINT

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