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Swaraj and swadeshi ran parallel on Gandhi’s schedule. On July 31, he inaugurated the campaign for the boycott of foreign cloth by kindling an immense bonfire in Bombay not out of racial...

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To Gandhi the outward fire was a symbol of the inner fire, which would burn up all weaknesses of the head and the heart…”in burning my foreign clothes I burn my shame,” said he...

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The bonfire spread all over the land. Gandhi went from village to village and from town to town…Here in Madurai, he decided to discard his cap and vest realizing that the millions...

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On the morning o September 21, his head was shaved and he wrapped a piece of Khaddar around his loins. Thus he resolutely tool to the loin-cloth… Great events seemed imminent.

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Gandhi declared; “it is contrary to national dignity for any Indian to serve under a Government which has brought about India’s economic, moral and political degradation”.

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Non-co-operation clashed with Poet Tagore’s way of thinking. Steering his bark against the current, he addressed the nation. “Though the Mahatma is the master of truth and love, it is possible that real freedom...

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In Gandhi’s command of “Spin and weave”, he did not see the gospel of a new creative age… for him the awakening of India was bound up with the awakening of the world.

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The warning of the great sentinel evoked a firm rejoinder from Gandhi. “When all about me are dying for want of food, the only occupation permissible to me is to feed the hungry and hunger is drawing them to the spinning wheel."

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“Our non-co-operation is with the material civilization and the exploitation of the weak…I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuge to be blown off my feet by any of them.”

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The revolution seemed to be smouldering everywhere ready to burst into flames when the Indian National Congress met at Ahmedabad in December 1921.

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The Congress again proclaimed its faith in civil disobedience as a weapon equally effective and more human than armed rebellion and delegated its powers to Gandhi as its sole executive authority.

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Gandhi informed the Viceroy that Bardoli Taluka in Gujarat was to be the first unit of non-violent mass revolt, but on February 5, 1922, on the outbreak of violence at Chauri Chaura in the district of Gorakhpur, taking the sins of the people upon himself...

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He suspended the intended mass civil disobedience in Bardoli and imposed on himself a five day fast as a penance.

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The long expected happened at last. On March 10, when Gandhi was about to retire, the police party arrived in the ashram to arrest him.

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Feeling happy and gratified at his arrest, he equipped himself with his barest necessities. The Ashram inmates joined in his last prayer and bowed to him.

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At noon march 18, the great trial began at Circult House, Ahmedabad.When a frail, serene indomitable figure entered, the entire court rose in an act of spontaneous homage.

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Gandhi was indicted on three seditious articles published in Young India. The first two contained the declaration of fight to the finish and preached disaffection towards the Government.

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In the third, challenging the power-intoxicated British Empire surviving on the exploitation of the weaker races, Gandhi had argued, “How can there be any compromise whilst...

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Accused Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aged 53, describing himself as a farmer and weaver by profession, spoke in his own defense and pleaded guilty to the charge...

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“…I do not ask for mercy. I am to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime and what appears to me to be the highest duty of the citizen.”

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The most epic event of modern times ended quickly. Gandhi was sentenced to six year’ simple imprisonment.

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The embodied symbol of the Indian nation disappeared as the gates closed behind him…Peace, non-violence, self-suffering was the message which vibrated from the prison walls.This was the prison meant for Gandhi’s long rest.

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Gandhi saw that the prison system was almost devoid of humanity. He was kept in solitary confinement. The jail manual was applied to him rigorously. He was subjected to search daily before lock-up...

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Gandhi mapped out a programme of studies to finish which six years were not enough.He accounted for every minute of his time. His day dawned with a prayer. At Six, he began his work Spinning which became an inner need with his occupied him for three hours...

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Believing that every spinner should learn to card, he engaged himself in carding for an hour.

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Six hours he devoted to literary efforts, sitting down to his books with the delight of a young man. He read extensively on religion and literature… he studied over again the Hindu scriptures and works on Islam, Christianity and Buddhism. He also read on social and natural sciences...

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Gandhi’s spirit animated the free world. Romain Rolland observed in his biography of Gandhi, “this is the man who stirred three hundred million people to revolt, who has introduced into human politics the strongest religious impetus of the last two thousand years.”

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The walls were no barriers to his thought. He wrote a primer for children, which stressed the importance of a clean body and a composed mind, of prayer, spinning and nature study, hoping that the mother in India would, in future, be her child’s teacher.

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Twenty two months of the prison life had an adverse effect on Gandhi’s health.On the night of January 12, 1924, amidst a violent thunderstorm, state prisoner Gandhi was operated upon in the Sassoon Hospital, Poona…

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Gandhi thanked his surgeon col. Meddock profusely and they became warm friends.The prisoner under guard began picking up unexpected fast.

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On February 4, the government remitted the unexpired portion of Gandhi’s sentence and released him unconditionally. His reaction was, “my release has brought me no relief.”

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Early in March, Gandhi came to “Palm-Bun’ at Juhu by the sea-side near Bombay to recuperate. He enjoyed the beauty of the landscape and recovered slowly.

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While convalescing, Gandhi resumed editorial charge of his weeklies after two years…” I had hoped for release by an act of a swaraj parliament”’ he wrote, “but that was not to be…