[Sri Ramakrishna] Fakir - explanation please - from Gandhavadhu

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Namaskar

 

i enjoyed reading this account of Gandhi and Churchill a lot. I have always

been fascinated with Churchill's loathing of Gandhi, despite the fact that

Chruchhill was so magnanimous in other respects. But for him Hitler could

well have won...

 

Yet it was he was instrumental in blocking the Nobel Peace Prize for the

Mahatma...i still cant get over the fact that people like Kissinger got the

Nobel Peace Prize and Gandhiji did not!!

 

I am also reminded of an incident i read about Gandhi's visit to the

Buckingham Palace for his audience with King George V when he visited

England during the Round Table Conference...Gandhiji as usual went dressed

only in his Chaddhar for his audience with the Emperor...and the reporters

accosted him when he emerged from the Palace after his audience and asked

him:

" Mr Gandhi!...Would it not have been appropriate for you to have dressed

more adequately for an audience with the Emperor.. "

 

And Gandhiji's reply was short.

 

" No...it was quite appropriate..you see the King was wearing enough clothes

for the both of us! "

 

Warms me to the Man even more!

 

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