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Show b be spread upon one of the long-armed rattan chairs in the »anm /ay station. This proved to be a solution of what Mr. Ra had thought an insurmountable problem; he was always worried and conrned about my fo d and rest. At night, in the waiting room, all of my brought not onl the bundles of paper he had promised, paper specimens Nos. 6-7, but als two jugs of hot buffalo milk for me, which I drank with relish from a handwrought brass jar. Additional paper, Mr. Sahai explained to me, could b had at the rate of sixteen rupees a ream, with a packing charge of cigh ‘annas for every ream; the paper me: sured thirty-four by twenty-two inches There were a dozen or more men in the little station, speaking in bot Hindustani and English, each man in turn advancing his idea for solvin India's many difficulties, but at the last all agreed that there was only on ‘man in India who could help them-Mahatma Gandhi ‘was late when I finally fell asleep in the little Kalpi station, for m mmd was troubled.Tt was difficult for me to reconcile the making of handmade paper and the hand wmmg of cloth, with the dry, dusty village o Kalpi. Tt all scemed and inconsistent. Was hand work, Gandhi contended, the mlu\mn of India?s problems? That lonely nighti KalpiI could not convince myself that there was asolution, nor ca believe that the problems of Indiz's millions can ever be so Digital image© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rihts reserved |