Foreign News: Gandhi Spends His Time

Sarjyut Shankerlal, recently released from Yeravda jail, where he was a fellow-prisoner of Mahatma Gandhi, contributed an article to Young India of Bombay, in which he described the existence of Gandhi in jail.

Excerpts:

" We were allowed an unlimited supply of books also from outside. Later, for health reasons, we were both of us allowed lights and bedsteads, and recently Mahatma Gandhiji has been allowed the use of a mosquito curtain. . . . While animal comforts are well looked after, he is mentally starved. . . .

" The public would be naturally...

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