ABOUT THE BLOG

Going through various blogs, for a change I decided to make a blog which is more impersonal
than me, myself, my dog, cat or else paste some of the residue from my professional bin. Seeing so many blogs, please allow me to be a bit non-serious. Albert Einstein was wrong only on one count when he said that nothing can travel faster than light. In today's world, information travels than light -- courtesy the heat felt in news channel studios. And there is so much of serious information that the funny and more quizzical part is missed altogether. So this is an attempt to shore up on the info culled from the archives with excerpts from books, newspapers, magazines, et al which were readable but you might have missed due to the burden of more `serious' intellectual choirs. It will essentially comment about the past and history, the present and its misery, and the mystery which we call our future.

THE OTHER SIDE

`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)