T HE MAHATMA had been gone for half a century, but there were
still Gandhis at the Phoenix Settlement, outside Durban on South
Africa's Indian Ocean coast, when I visited there the first time in
1965. A little boy, identified as a great-grandson, toddled across
the room. He was living with his grandmother, widow of Manilal
Gandhi, second of Gandhi's four sons, who 'd stayed on in South
Africa to edit Indian Opinion, the weekly paper his father had
started, and thereby keep alive the settlement and its values