________________ 159 Chapter 6 From iments with Truth Gandhiji returned to India after qualifying as a barrister in 1891. The details given here, following his landing in Mumbai have been taken from his autobiography Part-II, Chapter No. 1 Raichandbhai I had mentioned in the last chapter that the sea was rough on approach to Bombay harbour, not an unusual thing in the Arabian Sea in the months of June and July every year. It had been choppy all the way from Aden. Almost every passenger fell sick; I alone was in perfect form, staying on the deck to see the stormy surge and enjoying the splash of the waves. At breakfast, there would be just one or two people beside myself, eating their oatmeal porridge from plates carefully held in their laps, lest the porridge itself find its place in the seawaters. The outer storm was to me a reflection of the inner one. Though the former left me unperturbed, I cannot say the same
