GANDHI'S LAST FAST

Sickened by the spectacle of so much slaughter and hatred in the land he’d brought to freedom by preaching brotherhood and nonviolence, Gandhi, on January 13, 1948 announced he would fast to death unless peace returned to India. As he agonized, millions who’d been slaughtering each other swarmed in India’s streets pleading themselves to peace.

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