Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Charkha
Mahatma Gandhi was profoundly critical of the modern age in which machines enslaved humans and displaced labour.
He saw the charkha as a symbol of a human society that would not glorify machines and technology. The spinning wheel,
moreover, could provide the poor with supplementary income and make them self-reliant.
What I object to, was the craze for machinery as such. The craze was for what they call labour-saving machinery.
Men go on “saving labour”, till thousands were without work and thrown on the open streets to die of starvation.
I want to save time and labour, not for a fraction of mankind, but for all; I want the concentration of wealth,
not in the hands of few, but in the hands of all.
YOUNG INDIA, 13 NOVEMBER 1924.
Khaddar does not seek to destroy all machinery but it does regulate its use and check its weedy growth.
It uses machinery for the service of the poorest in their own cottages. The wheel was itself an exquisite piece of machinery.
YOUNG INDIA, 17 March 1927
