Today in Peace and Justice history on August 23, 1933


Mahatma Gandhi, weighing only 90 pounds, was released unconditionally from Sassoon Hospital in Poona because, after 5 days of his latest “fast unto death,” the doctors feared that his body could no longer stand the strain of fasting. 
He had been taken to the hospital from Yeravda jail, which he had described as his “permanent address,”. . . http://bit.ly/16oex82