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Answer the following in 125-150 words:

How did the instructor make Douglas a good swimmer?

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The Champaran episode was a turning point in Gandhiji's life. Elucidate.

 

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Douglas was afraid of water due to an incident in his childhood. Because of this fear he could not enjoy the water sports like boating, canoeing and swimming so he thought of conquering his fear and took an instructor to teach him swimming. The instructor tied a belt around him. A rope was attached to it and went through a pulley that ran on a cable overhead. This was done so that Douglas would not drown.             The instructor then held one end of that rope and they went back and forth. Within three months of training, the fear of water became less. Then he told him to exhale under water and inhale above water. This exercise was repeated several times. The instructor held him on the edge of the pool and he kicked his legs. Douglas perfected each exercise and thus became a good swimmer.

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On Shukla?s complaint about the injustice of the British landlords, Gandhiji went to Bihar with him and there he heard the problems of peasants and came to know about their pathetic situation. He was resolved to fight for the peasants and release the poor sharecroppers from the British landlord. From Patna he went to Muzaffarpur?s where he met the lawyers and convinced them that they were there to serve the peasants. He also rebuked them for charging big fee from the poor sharecroppers. His main aim was to make the peasants fearless as the freedom from fear was more important than the legal justice for them. To set an example before them, he himself went to the jail, although he was a stranger there. Seeing this, the lawyers also agreed for the court arrest and the contribution of the peasants and the poor sharecroppers to the freedom movement without any violence. Therefore, Champarans episode proved to be a turning point in his life as he understood that people of India could win freedom by truth and non-violence.