ANIMESH BARAL

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                     The Passing Away Of Bapu                                              --- Nayantara Sehgal I was having tea at home on the evening of 30 th January, 1948, when I was called to Birla house by an urgent telephone. Gandhiji had been shot on his way to a prayer meeting. I was numb with shock as I got into the car. At the Birla house, Gandhiji’s relatives and followers had gathered round his body. There was silence in the room as Gandhiji breathed his last. Words of bapuji’s death had spread through Delhi like a flame fanned by wind. Sad groups of men and women had collected around Birla house. Out of every window one could see a brown blur of faces. They did not make a sound. There was an unnatural silence. It was as if time stood sill for those few minutes. The people were too stunned to speak in the beginnin g. Later they clamoured wildly, shouting and crying. The jostled one another in a stamped to break into the house. They claimed a little when it was ann

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