Chapter 8: VIII

VIII Nikhil’s Story X Paragraphs and letters against me have begun to come out in the local papers; cartoons and lampoons are to follow, I am told. Jets of wit and humour are being splashed about, and the lies thus scattered are convulsing the whole country. They know that the monopoly of mud-throwing is theirs, and the innocent passerby cannot escape unsoiled. They are saying that the residents in my estates, from the highest to the lowest, are in favour of Swadeshi, but they…