Yorulmaz, Osman Bülent, Halide Edib Adıvar'in Hindistan Hayatı (Dragged)1

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The Hindustan Times

19th January 1935 Page:12

MASQUES AND SOULS

HalideHanum'sDiscussion

With Gandhiji

M.D.

writes in 'Harijan':_

Even greater perhaps than the meeting withDr.Maude

Roydenwas the meeting of Gandhiji with that choice spirit

of the age, Madame Halide Edib

Hanum,

whose has been a life

of intense suffering and sacrifice. There is a shadow of

subdued melancholy over this fighter in the cause of freedom,

and in her benignant eyes is a glint and a flash sufficient

to scorch all impurity and injustice. She has laboured and

sufferedall herlife,written great books and striven to

bring her people nearer to that freedom which is a thing

that we have to conquer afresh for ourselves everyday, like

love,

and which we are losing because after eachvictory,we

think we can settle down and enjoy it without furtehr struggle.

Hope of Mankind

This remarkable lady who typifies the best in the woman

hood of Turkey has come at the invitation of the Jamia Millia

Islamia to deliver a course of lectures on what one may call

the reconciliation between the East and the West, the

cul

tures of which are so beautifully blended in her. But in

her utmost humility wherein lies the strength of the truly

strong she came and sat down near Gandhiji and said: I have

come to learn from you and take what I can for my own people.

I will not, I dare not, describe the talks that have taken

place between them. They are too sacred for my pen. But let

the reader know that having known what violence is, she seems

definitely to have turned her back on it and found that in


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non-violence alone lies the hope of mankind.

Nationalism - Right and Wrong

Hers is no narrow nationalism. Suffering has with her

no value unless it is pure and undefiled. In her great book

of Memoirs shesays: The individual or the nationin order

to understand itsfellowmenor its fellow nations, in order

to create beauty and to express its personality, must go

deep down to the roots of its being and study itself sincere

ly. The process of this deep

self-duty,as

well as its results,

is nationalism. I believe with all earnestness that such

a national self-duty and the exchange of its results is

the first and right step to international understanding and

love of the peoples and nations. It is after I have loved

my own people and tried to understand their virtues and their

faults with open-minded humility taht I begin to have a better

understanding of other people's sufferings and joys,and

of their personality expressed in their national life. I

will also admit that there is a narrow, negative and destruc

tive nationalism in the world, which has deluded itself with

the belief that a nation can only grow and thrive by exter

minating and oppressing the peoples under its rule, or by

conquering and suppressing the nations around it. Both are

forms of wrongly understood nationalism which can be called

by the names ofchauvenismand imperialism. And the peoples

who exercised them have themselves suffered materially and

morally more than the people they have tried to hurt.

The hypocarcy and personal unworthiness of many

of the world's leaders, whether national or international,

can lead to a complete and final destruction of all that

has been the outcome of infinite suffering and experience

of thousands of years. Also: Nationalism used for political

purposes is an ideal turnedintoa monstrosity. It is for

a moral and material reconstruction of her nation that she

is striving, and it is to that end that she would like to

shape all her educational and social reform activities. The

school in her opinion must conform as much as possible to

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Oh yes, if we can find even one true witness to the

Truth, said Gandhiji.

I am not very optimistic, for the opposite side is

very strong, said Madame Halide.

I have never lost my optimism, said

Gandhiji

assuring

her. In seemingly darkest hours hope has burnt bright within

me.

You cannot kill your own hope, I know, she said in

serene exaltation.

You are absolutely right. I cannot kill the hope myself.

I must say I cannot give an ocular demonstration to justify

the hope. But there is no defeat in me.

There will never be I am sure, there will never be.


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The Hindustan Times

20th January 1935 Page : 11

Badge of Real Heroism

Distress and Suffering

Lessons of Turkey's Sacrifices

Gandhiji'sViews

NEW

DELHI,

Saturday

Those who die in utter distress and suffering are the

real heroes and heroins of the world, and not the monarchs

and kings, however high their empires might be, said Mahat-

ma Gandhipresiding over the second series of lectures Ma

dame Halide Edib Hanum at the Jamia Millia Islamia to-day.

Yazxnm

bundan sonraki

kismi

The Bombay

Chronicle'in

21 Ocak 1935 tarihli

sayismda cikan yazmin

aynidir.


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The Bombay Chronicle

21st January 1935 Page

GANDHIJI'S

GLOWING TRIBUTE

TOHALIDE'SSERVICE

Musalmans,

Bones Of Our Bones

INDISSOLUBLE TIE BETWEEN TWO NATIONS

(From our Correspon

dent) NEWDELHI-

Jan.19.

True history is the history of the individual men

and women who die in utter neglect and are true heroes and

heroins and not that of great kings who bring destruction,

said Gandhiji presiding over the second extension lecture

on 'the conflict of East and West in Turkey' delivered by

Madame Halide EdibHanum,in theJamiaMillia Islamia

to

night.

The Living Link

Continuing Gandhiji said: When our sister was presen

ted the other day I immediately betrayed ignorance of the

subject and as I was trying to listen to-night I could again

see how ignorant I was of the outside history. Having immersed

in a life of perpetual activity, I am unable to keep abreast

with history of the present times. But I could not resist

the idea of listening to Begum Sahiba and it became irresis-

table

when I met her. She is the living link between India

and Turkey. If I had not come to-day, I would have missed

the address and lost the opportunity of realising my igno

rance.

These extension lectures are not meant for seasoned soldiers

but for young students of this college. If these youngsters


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