In 1934 when a deadly earth quake struck Bihar killing around 30000 people, Mahatma Gandhi insanely stated the incident was a punishment of God towards sins of untouchability. And Gandhi conveniently ignored the lost lives of many untouchables in that earth quake. Ravindranath strongly objected Gandhi on this matter for still driving people with superstitions. He asked Gandhi to educate people with science and reason instead of blind faith. Of course Gandhi never heeded to that.
Once when Mahatma Gandhi visited Tagore's Santhiniketan, a young woman asked Gandhi and Tagore for an autograph in her book. Gandhi wrote "Never make a promise in haste. Having once made it fulfill it at the cost of your life." On seeing this Tagore objected to that in his own words in that book by writing "Fling away your promise if it is found to be wrong."
Mahatma Gandhi always insisted on the Charka (spinning wheel) to be used by all Indians for at least 30 minutes everyday, Tagore suggested instead of spinning charka without any thinking and judgement let people tide with technological advances. As usual Mahatma Gandhi was hell bent on his ideas only.
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