Shaikh Jilani this is in response to the post of the morphed photo of Bapu, pl post and circulate. Picture the slightest, frailest man in Asia, with face and flesh of bronze, closecropped grey head, high cheek bones, kindly little brown eyes, a large and almost toothless mouth, larger ears, an enormous nose, thin arms and legs, clad in a lion-cloth, standing before an English judge in India, on trial because he has preached liberty to his countrymen. Picture him again similarly dressed, at the Viceroy’s palace in Delhi, in conference on equal terms with the highest representative of England. Or picture him seated on a small carpet in a bare room at his Satyagrah Ashram, or School of Truth-Seekers, at Ahmedabad; his bony legs crossed under him in Yogi fashion, soles upwards, his hands busy at a spinning wheel, his face lined up with suffering of his people, his mind active with ready answers to every questioner of freedom. This naked weaver is both the spiritual and political leader of 320,000,000 Indians; when he appears in public, crowds gather round him to touch his clothing or to kiss his feet; not since Buddha has India so reverenced any man. He is in all probability the most important, and beyond all doubt the most interesting, figure in the world today. Centuries hence he will be remembered when of his contemporaries hardly a name will survive………… Will Durant.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 11:58:54 +0000
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