@article {article1085, title = {Need for self-restraint in public life}, author = {Sudarshan Iyengar}, journal = {Foundation of The Billion Press}, date = 2016-09-14, year = 2016, url = https://www.thebillionpress.org/columns/politics/need-self-restraint-public-life-1085, Abstract = {A person in public life has to be a person of character exercising self-restraint all the time. Gandhiji believed in self-imposed internal ethical control as against institutional restraints imposed from the outside by society on one’s behaviour, especially when in public life. } }