Number of words: 333 Dr Wulsin describes experiments on how clothes hamper the body in keeping itself cool. They act as insulators, checking heat loss by radiation. More important, they create near the skin a layer of heat, soaked through the clothing, and then its cooling effect is largely wasted. Europeans in the tropics who … Read more
Number of words: 208 There has recently been an interesting discussion of this subject in Time magazine. Professor Huntington of Yale has argued that the highest forms of civilization must develop in temperate climates. If a country is too cold, its people have to struggle too hard just to stay alive. If it is too … Read more
Number of words: 173 Bernard Shaw illustrated this point by a description of the Victorian woman. She was a masterpiece of sex appeal. She was sex appeal from the top her head to the soles of her feet. She was clothed, of course, from head to feet; all clothes! Everything about her, except her cheeks … Read more
Number of words: 105 Then he speaks of a Hindu religious song of morning, and the holy formula “Sat-Chi-Ananda”: “sat” meaning “truth”, “Chi” “that which lives” and “true knowledge” (i.e. not a knowledge void of true perception), and “Ananda” “ineffable joy”. In this conception truth is inseperable from joy. “Yet one must suffer in the … Read more
Number of words: 94 Then we have another saying in Hindu philosophy: “God alone is, and nothing else is.” You will find the same truth emphasized and illustrated in the Kalma of Islam. The Sanskrit word for truth means literally “that which exist”, “sat”. For this and several other reasons I have come to the … Read more
Number of words: 344 He marks the next stage of India’s progress. Much more touched than Gandhi by social preoccupations and much better informed of the overall worldwide social movement, he has formed an advanced Socialist party in Congress of which he is the recognized leader, although his imprisonments have made it impossible for him … Read more
Number of words: 265 Impressions of Gandhi from my sister and the Privats. He is small, with a well-shaped head, not bald but shaven bare; ugly and likeable (in the end he appears charming), a receding brow, a large turned-up nose, a more or less toothless mouth (which is normally closed, but when he laughs, … Read more
Number of words: 135 Gandhi is a hero in an age of transition, who, like many others, has been divided between two ideals, that of the past and that of the future, and has been forced to abandon the first only very slowly, with difficulty, as if with regret. Nor must his legal training be … Read more
Number of words: 100 Visited by Ambalal Sarabhai, a major industrialist from Ahmedabad. … He is on friendly terms with Gandhi, whose Ashram is three miles away from his home, on the other bank of the river. . . . But this owner and director of large cotton mills finds himself much embarrassed by Gandhi’s … Read more
Number of words 278 Lajpat Rai totally disapproves of Gandhi’s programme since his liberation, and says that if he does not change it he will have to break away from him, which will be a serious blow to the prestige of the Indian cause —but there is no other way. His argument is that Gandhi … Read more
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