`The Other Side of Gandhi'
* In the first satyagraha campaign, when Kasturba was ill, Gandhi decline to pay his fine and leave jail to be with her. `If you die', he wrote even your death will be a sacrifice to the cause of Satyagraha. In February, Gandhi wrote a letter to Kallenbach of his disappointment that there had been no Gujarati martyr. If anybody should have died it was Mrs Gandhi, refering to his wife.
* A few weeks later Kasturba began to improve and even started complaining about Jeki's behaviour (daughter of Gandhi's close friend Dr Pranjivan Mehta, of whom she thought her husband was too fond of. At this, Gandhi gently but rebukingly remarked that her illness was largely due to her sinful thoughts.
(courtesy: Gandhi A political and Spiritual Life by Kathyrn Tidrick)
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