The Story of My Experiments with Truth Part 3, Chapter 4 Summary

The Calm After the Storm

  • Gandhi speaks with a journalist and clarifies that he wasn't bringing Indian passengers to settle and that he said nothing in India that he hadn't said in South Africa. Thanks for clearing that up, G.
  • Legislation is passed that discriminates against the Indian residents of Natal. Gandhi fights against the new laws.
  • He says public institutions should draw their current expenditures from funds received annually, rather than from permanent funds. Permanent money, he says, contains the seeds of moral downfall because people start fighting over it instead of being accountable to the public, who could withhold their donations.