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Show green flag", the emblem of the Congress, flying i from the radiator cap. T wa plmd in the back seat nl the automobile, along with a basket of eggs, an ere off to the secluded home of the most influential and most belove i du-M.thma Gandhi. The antique car joggled over the rough sun-baked road; we passed bullock-carts whose wa for the. Jom-wlmd but as there was really no defined roadway T could no se the need for argument. We drove about six miles through the dust country, the landscape was dull and monotonous, broken only by a fe serubby bushes growing here and there in the dry, hot sand. As we rod along Mr. Desai looked over the dml)hndscapc, and amazed me by askin if there was any countrysid in Am eautiful. He seemed to hav a distorted conception of the U e scene,and was suprised n ce the most educated people of India who o o i xwma borders seemed to have a strange conception of the United States and of th lives of its citizens. This false and erroneous conception is, of course, th xesult of certain uncouth American B pictures that should not, but do find their Yo into Tndia and the Orie At last e came to a long, low lhmchcd building set close to the roadway. e e s it i g2 gate, othrs builing ences, an several workers operating a huge ox-driven sugar press. We alighted fro the ca and procede tovard the houssswithin the enclosre. Mr. po said that the Mahatma was thezen, L towaitat anullxerhousc until th 1 the Congres fiag the colour saffron s freshnes. The sping wheel (chrkhe) in th s sy i Hind s Moharmmoedan Gt of Ui B i oolf the pooe o saine clothing; the whie s symbalic of purity India for whom the Congress s fightig . truth, and the green denotes youth an Digital Image © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rights reserved |