When the charismatic leader went on a fast in Calcutta (now Kolkata) to stop bloody religious rioting in 1947, the British-owned Statesman newspaper noted: "On the ethics of fasting as a political instrument we have over many years failed to concur with India's most renowned practitioner of it...
But never in a long career has Mahatma Gandhi, in our eyes, fasted in a simpler, worthier cause than this, not one calculated for immediate effective appeal to the public conscience."
When the charismatic leader went on a fast in Calcutta (now Kolkata) to stop bloody religious rioting in 1947, the British-owned Statesman newspaper noted: "On the ethics of fasting as a political instrument we have over many years failed to concur with India's most renowned practitioner of it... But never in a long career has Mahatma Gandhi, in our eyes, fasted in a simpler, worthier cause than this, not one calculated for immediate effective appeal to the public conscience."
