BrritSki
2019-10-28 13:47:08 UTC
From today's Times:
"Gandhi’s saintly and ascetic aura was challenged in his lifetime. Other
Indians were often critical, especially of his quasi-religious fads. “It
costs a lot to keep Gandhi in poverty,” joked the politician-poet
Sarojini Naidu. When Gandhi insisted on travelling third class, the
whole carriage had to be requisitioned for his retinue. When he sailed
to Britain for talks with the government he was accompanied by his
English disciple Madeleine Slade and also by his nanny-goat, whose milk
was essential to his strict diet. The combination gave rise to the
limerick:
“There was an old man called Gandy
Woke up in the night feeling randy.
He said to the maid:
‘Go fetch Miss Slade
Or the goat if she’s not handy’.”
LOL
"Gandhi’s saintly and ascetic aura was challenged in his lifetime. Other
Indians were often critical, especially of his quasi-religious fads. “It
costs a lot to keep Gandhi in poverty,” joked the politician-poet
Sarojini Naidu. When Gandhi insisted on travelling third class, the
whole carriage had to be requisitioned for his retinue. When he sailed
to Britain for talks with the government he was accompanied by his
English disciple Madeleine Slade and also by his nanny-goat, whose milk
was essential to his strict diet. The combination gave rise to the
limerick:
“There was an old man called Gandy
Woke up in the night feeling randy.
He said to the maid:
‘Go fetch Miss Slade
Or the goat if she’s not handy’.”
LOL