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MR. VIRCHAND R. GANDHI
A BRIEF SKETCH OF HIS SHORT BUT USEFUL CAREER. By-Bhagu F. Karabhari.
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"Give me the making of a nation's ballad and, I will leave its history to anybody. "These are pregnant words. Fortunately India requires no more ballads today. They are necessary for a country that is passing through the first, the crude process of self-building. India requires no ballads. She has the oldest, grandest and greatest epics in the world-epics immortal. Her epics and other monumental religious works are the only key which has so far opened to the moderns the secrets almost of the infancy of the world. But by a strange law of cotrariety a country that was once rich in history and lyrical biography has become
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today a pauper in that department by the absolute absence of authentic and instructive biographies of men of today, men who have stood. sponsers, in a thousand ways at the cradle of Young India. True, some of these have merely been comets of a season, men cut off in the prime of life just as their genius was budding into blossom. But even then they had their day. They were active influences, living forces in the various communities they belonged to. Can a community or a country be said to be doing its duty if it allows the memory of such men to be wasted away like letters written on sand? Any country or com
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