Shyness My Shield
- A debate comes up in the Vegetarian Society over whether the organization is only to promote vegetarianism or other morals as well.
- Gandhi sides with the losing view that the group should stick to its mandate of only being about vegetarianism.
- During this debate, and at other times as well, Gandhi has difficulty making public speeches.
- He says this shyness serves him well, however, because it makes him a man of few words.
- That makes him more truthful, he says, because he picks his words carefully.