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Back in India, the exhausting cycle of congresses and incarcerations began again. Motilal's hard-driven health was failing, and in 1931 he died. His funeral was an occasion for a tremendous demonstration of Nationalist-minded Indians. Said Gandhi : "What I have lost through Motilalji's death is a loss forever."
Strained, tired, idealistic Jawaharlal carried on in Gandhi's dogged war of attrition against the British Empire. When he and Gandhi were again arrested in 1932, Krishna, Swarup, and their delicate, aged mother took to the hustings. The two sisters were promptly clapped into jail for a year apiece; their mother shortly followed. True to Nehru tradition, Krishna found prison life "not pleasant" but "a great experience."
Gandhi's Heir. Written in 1942-43 while Krishna waited for her husband to complete a one-year stretch, With No Regrets is no guide to the tortuous complexities of Indian politics. Nor is it even Gandhi propaganda. British imperialists may read it without risk of apoplexy. But for most westerners, these gentle reminiscences will help to bring alive the sensitive, ascetic man of dreams and action who will probably inherit Gandhi's sainted khadi during modern India's most crucial years.