9 December 1926: Addiction, particularly among the poor, has become a serious problem
An English friend of Mr. Gandhi writes from Santiniketan, Bolpur, India:–
We arrived at the Ashram (Dr. Rabindranath Tagore’s home) on Mr. Gandhi’s birthday, and, of course, hundreds of people kept arriving to do him honour. There are about 200 people living at the Ashram – mostly in families. Some scholarship boys are there for three months to learn spinning and weaving so that they can go out to the villages and spend their lives working among the humblest, starting khaddar so as to augment the scanty wages of the peasants, teaching them to think for themselves, trying to break down “untouchability,” discouraging child marriages, and weaning the people, men, women, and children alike, from drink and opium.
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