BAHUROOPE GANDHI By ANU BANDYOPADHYAYA.............. He was very fond of children. Two months after a child’s birth, he did not keep any of his sons under the care of a nurse or a maid. Love and attention from parents he considered essential for the development of a child. He could tend, feed and humour a baby like a mother. After release from a South African jail, he once came home and found his friend’s wife, Mrs. Polak, very thin and weary. She was trying to wean her baby from mother’s milk. The baby gave her no rest and kept her awake by crying. That very night Gandhi took charge of the baby. After working hard for the whole day, delivering speeches in public meetings and trudging four miles, Gandhi sometimes reached home at 1 o’clock in the night, picked up the child from his mother’s side and laid him on his own bed. He kept a jug of water ready near him to pacify the thirst of the child but it was needless. The child never cried and slept quietly. After a fortnight, the weaning effort proved successful.
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