CHANDIPUR: [Agencies report,] As Mr. Gandhi was returning to his cottage yesterday [Jan 6] morning after his morning walk, he was stopped on the way by some women of the Chandipur refugees camp who wanted to see him.

From amongst the women refugees stepped forward an old women aged 99.

Stooping with age and almost completely blind, she opened her eyes wide and mumbled and groped forward to see “the Mahatma”, but said she could not see him.

Mr. Gandhi, who was observing his weekly silence, went up to her and conveyed to her through a slip written in Gujarati, “If you cannot see with your eyes see with your inner vision.”

[Meanwhile, according to news agencies in London,] The British military authorities are preparing to launch the biggest offensive in modern Palestine’s history in a final bid to crush what the Government call “the open rebellion against law and order” by Jewish extremists, it is authoritatively learned. Sir Alan Cunningham, the High Commissioner of Palestine, will be given time to consult with his officers on the spot before final decisions on restraining terrorism in Palestine are reached.

Published in Dawn, January 8th, 2022