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54 Gandhiji used his time in jail to dictate to a fellow prisoner his autobiography which was later published and read all over the world, for by now his fame had spread to the four corners of the earth. The helpless and the downtrodden everywhere looked to him as

their savior. Gandhiji dictated his book first in the language spoken in his own province, and it was then translated into English and many other foreign languages.

In this manner two years went by. Gandhiji always said that when he was in jail he got a chance to think deeply and to meditate and did not mind the hardships of prison life at all. One night he fell very ill and when the doctor was sent for he said that Gandhiji had to be