![]() Once while he was boarding train one of his shoes slipped and fell on to the track. ![]() ![]() Gandhi was basically very helping and concerned about others. The first thing the people of the United States heard the Mahatma say was, “Do I have to speak into this thing?” While in England in 1931, Gandhi made his first radio broadcast for the United States. This is a sample of Gandhi’s bitter experiences with British. The British and the Railway officer cruelly pushed Gandhi out of the train. But Gandhi refused as he had the ticket with him. Once during a train journey a British asked Gandhi to get out of the train as he was considered as a ‘black’. All those years of walking served him well during the Salt March of 1930 when, at the age of 60, he walked 241 miles from his ashram to the sea at Dandi. ![]() It was primarily those long walks, he said, that “kept me practically free from illness throughout my stay in England and gave me a fairly strong body". As a law student in London, he saved money by walking as many as eight to ten miles a day. He began enjoying long walks in high school, preferring lengthy rambles to organized sports. Walking, he said, “is justly called the prince of exercises". ![]() In fact, in his autobiography, he says that, as a boy, he was so shy that he would run home from school because he could not bear to talk to anybody. He was not born a courageous, outspoken leader. ![]()
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