“In the very first month of Indian Opinion”, writes Bapu in The Story of My Experiments with Truth, “I realised that the sole aim of journalism should be service. For me, it became a means for the study of human nature in all its casts and shades, as I always aimed at establishing an intimate and clean bond between the editor and the readers. I was inundated with letters. They were friendly, critical or bitter. It was a fine education for me to study, digest and answer all this correspondence. It was as though the community thought audibly through this correspondence with me. It made me thoroughly understand the responsibility of a journalist.”