"During his interwar period at the Sevagram hermitage, the first question he asked his female attendants each day was: “Did you have a good bowel‐movement this morning, sister?” He himself spent 20 minutes on a close‐stool twice a day, and took an enema every evening. lie thought nothing of urinating and defecating in public. In pursuit of the perfect bowel‐mcivement he constantly changed his diet..."

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/06/archives/mahatma-gandhi-and-his-apostles.html