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Within view of the city’s great landmark, the Victoria Station, was another symbol: on a filthy and torn banner Gandhi’s famous saying, “Cleanliness is next to Godliness,” looked desecrated.
A Coolie was simply a porter who arranged for the delivery of what you purchased. Today he proposed himself also as my guide to this market, named after the city’s first “municipal commissioner” in 1865.
Some of India’s issues were visible just outside. The huge amount of trash and garbage only a few yards from the hotel was still being handled by the “untouchables” who used only ancient brooms.
t was here that Gandhi learned to weave and develop his related philosophy of satyagraha based on the principles of truth, non-violence, and self sacrifice. “The spinning of wheel is for India’s starving millions the symbol of salvation,” Gandhi’s words were posted on the wall: "Not on the clatter of arms but on the Reintroduction of the spinning wheels depends the economic and moral Regeneration of India.... It is not enough that one wears Khadi if he surrounds himself with VIDESHI ... Khadi has been conceived as the foundation of and the image of AHIMSA ...
I stood for sometime at its portal. A small mattress doubled as Gandhi’s work place. His charkha (spinning wheel) was next to it.
She is believed to have “rational perception.” Two commands from the Jain prophets in display on the walls attracted my attention: “Every man is the architect of his own fortune."
In the Gandhi Museum in Mumbai a saying by Einstein reminds the reader how uncommon Gandhi was: “Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth."
... which they sold as a cure for “sadness”. Earlier the “laughing club” had gathered in this park: “they come here every morning and just laugh the loudest they can, believing that this is therapeutic,” the guide said.
“An even earlier picture was that of a very young Shah of Iran, uncharacteristically, trailing his second wife, Soraya, who was being led by the then ruling Tata, JRD, the grand nephew of the founder.
Two young women in colorful garb were mixing traditional medicine at the foot of the stairs to Malabar’s Municipal Park...
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