Harijan Ahmedabad—Sunday February 10 1946

The sooner we get out of it the bettfor us the ruling power and the world. [...] The rise of Hindustani will also give an impetus to the provicial languages because it is the language of the masses not of a handful of officials. [...] But it was in the former that his apprenticeship with Gandhiji really began and Gandhiji used often to remark in later years 4-at his brilliant success in the latter was due to his schooling in the former [ February 10 1946 — — The first thing that a secretary of Gandhi; has to learn is the importance of being punctilious and exact in little things. [...] Thus the late Shri Mahadev Desai had a passion for spinning particularly spinning on takli and the stamp of his interest could be seen in the columns of Young India ' and Harijan '. Those who saw him issue forth at the head of the bucket-and-broom brgade from Ma ganwadi day after day and week after week in the midst of heavy pressure of work could understand his passionate advocacy of the c [...] When Gandhiji visited the lavatory in the middle of the night he 'was surprised to find the two of us already in possession — our papers spread out on the floor.