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a meeting. But in the end he was too
cowed even to do that.
Gandhi learned over time to manage
his shyness, but he never really overcame
it. He couldn’t speak extemporaneously;
he avoided making speeches
whenever possible. Even in his later
years, he wrote, “I do not think I could
or would even be inclined to keep a
meeting of friends engaged in talk.”
But with his shyness came his unique
brand of strength—a form of restraint
best understood by examining little
known corners of Gandhi’s life story. As
a young man he decided to travel to
England to study law, against the
wishes of the leaders of his Modhi
Bania subcaste. Caste members were
forbidden to eat meat, and the leaders
believed that vegetarianism was impossible
in England. But Gandhi had
already vowed to his beloved mother to
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