Ghandi, to a soldier

[d_goddard]

This from the obituary of Indar Jit Rikhye in the June 7th Economist:

SUCH a meeting was not easily forgotten. The small, bald, wiry man, dressed in a dhoti and leaning on a staff, peered through his spectacles at the 17-year-old schoolboy, who was too abashed to speak. "This silly boy wants to go into the army," his father was saying. Mahatma Gandhi did not miss a beat. "But that is good!" he cried. "We need good, educated young officers in the army of free India!"

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