charka

• “Tagore, for example, remained unconvinced of the merit of Gandhi's forceful advocacy that everyone should spin at home with the "charka," the primitive spinning wheel.”

  Tagore and His India

• “The aroused energy no longer resides only in the sexual center, or the second charka, it actually emanates throughout the body.”

  Dr. Elsbeth Meuth and Freddy Zental Weaver: Sexual Intelligence: One of the Keys to Fulfillment and Joy

• “When we last saw our Indian charka, we had examined the drive wheels.”

  Learning new things: Charkha spinning, part 2

• “Then they filled their glasses and began another round, or charka.”

  Simon & Schuster: Malice

• “In Russia, we have a saying: ‘The first charka is for health, the next for joy, the third for quarrel.’”

  Simon & Schuster: Malice

• “I was lucky enough to see some and to meet Sheila and Johnathon Bosworth at Woolfest this year..there can`t be many in the UK that can claim to have had their first ever try of a book charka under the eye of Johnathen Bosworth, no?”

  Spindle spinning.

• “I was mince at it, btw, but the prototype Bosworth book charka is a work of art...”

  Spindle spinning.

• “It was on education (and on the reflection, dialogue, and communication that are associated with it), rather than on, say, spinning "as a sacrifice" ( "the charka does not require anyone to think"), that the future of India would depend.”

  Tagore and His India

• “Romain Rolland noted, Rabindranath "never tires of criticizing the charka.”

  Tagore and His India

• “It was not only that the charka made little economic sense, but also, Tagore thought, that it was not the way to make people reflect on anything: "The charka does not require anyone to think; one simply turns the wheel of the antiquated invention endlessly, using the minimum of judgment and stamina.”

  Tagore and His India

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