LAW STUDENT'S FAST.
SYMPATHY WITH GANDHI. (By Air Mail.) LONDON, March 8. Sitting cross-legged on his Haveistock Hill, N.W., bed yesterday, Motilal Kothari, Hindu law student at London University, told a reporter: "I am quite cheerful; but the second and third days will epunt." Motilal had just completed 24 hours of his fast in sympathy with Mr Gandhi's '"hunger strike to death." His white homespun dhoti (loin cloth), white Nehru shirt and white Gandhi "Congress-" cap seemed strangely incongruous in the half-gloom of the London afternoon. Above his bed hung the orange, green and white Congress flag of India. "Mr. Gandhi has forbidden indefinite fasts by his followers, but he has said nothing against short sympathy fasts," Motilal told the reporter. Hβ was reading "The Key of Knowledge," a comparative study of religions. "I shall not eat nor drink—no, not even water—for three days. In hours this will represent Gandhi's 70 years." '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 78, 3 April 1939, Page 4
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