Harijan Poona — Saturday November 19 1938

And is there no connection between Swaraj and khadi ? Were the Congressmen who made themselves responsible for the khadi clause in the Constitution so dense that they did not see the fallacy which is obvious to some critics ? I have not hesitated to say and I make bold to repeat now that without khadi there is no Swaraj for the millions the hungry and the naked and for the millions of illite [...] The be way to show the working of of the relay teaching is to invite an audience to imagine themselves as the farmers of China attending an evening class in the village and the speaker as a country school teacher. [...] It is hoped that the government will see the importance of its adoption at least as one of the alternatives and use its prestige and influence to spread it among the less fortunate of the popultion who have neither the time nor the money to learn the thousands of Chinese characters which will take years to master them. [...] At the outset both Khan Saheb and I had come to the conclusion that instead of addresing the whole of the Khudai Khidmatgars at the various centres I should confine myself to the leaders. [...] The elemental vigour and simplicity of its rhythmic movements that are performed to the accompaniment of the music of the drums and the surnais held one spellbound while the sheer elant with which the young and the old including even a sprinkling of Hindus participted in it gladdened one's heart.