Question

• Why did Gandhiji and his team start doing the job of cleaning? What do you think about this?

• Do you know any such people in your area who try to help others in solving their problems? Find out.

• Guests at Gandhiji’s Ashram had to learn this work also. If you were one of these guests, what would you do?

• What are the toilet arrangements in your house? Where is the toilet? Inside the house, or outside? Who cleans the toilet?

• How did the man who was returning from the toilet behave with Mahadevbhai? Why did he behave like this?

Answer 1

• Gandhiji and his team started doing the job of cleaning to change the view of some people in the society who considered the job of cleaning as a low status job. Gandhiji wanted to eradicate untouchability from the society. He wanted to convey people that all works are equal and no work is big or small.

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• The man who was returning from the toilet behaved very rudely with Mahadevbhai. He ordered him to clean the dirt. In his opinion, cleaning being a low status job was meant for only some people in the society and not everyone. He disrespected these people and considered them as untouchables.