Bapu at his witty best: No elite' fruit for me
Deccan ChronicleBengaluru: The Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi was no stranger to Bengaluru and his association with the city from 1915 to 1936, when he visited it five times, is well chronicled. On his first visit on May 8, 1915 he was served only peanuts and fruits for lunch at his request, said freedom fighter and Gandhian, Dr H. Sreenivasiah, in his book Gandhi In Bangalore, also recalling that he refused to eat apples, “an elite fruit”, and picked papaya instead. Instead, he chose to walk all the way to his accommodation at Ananda Rao Circle, says a book published by the Karnataka Gandhi Smaraka Nidhi. His second visit to the city on August 21, 1920 was part of the Non-Cooperation movement and saw him address a gathering at the Khuddus Sahab Eidgah Maidan in Benson Town. An unwell Gandhi camped in Nandi Hills in 1927 during his third visit and visited the Imperial Diary Farm in Adugodi, watched a play, Dinabandu Kabir in the Majestic, visited the Tata Institute, Sri Chamarajendra Sanskrit Patashale and Mahila Seva Samaja in Shankarpuram.
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