Monday, October 23, 2006

“Gandhiji insisted on following Sabarmati’s routine... everyone had to spin the charkha too”

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Lord Irwin to repeal the oppressive law. His appeals were offered a deaf ear though, and thus it transpired on the 12th of March 1930 that 78 male satyagrahis accompanied Bapu from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi, Gujarat, in an exodus aimed at walking roughshod over the aspirations of a ravenous regime, albeit peacefully. “It’s the classic good vs evil battle, we all love to watch!” beamed Bhavik as we set off on the historic trail.

This was no mean trek (in fact, the route declared now a national heritage), for the road ahead from Sabarmati meant undertaking a trip spanning all of 26 days and necessitating 250 miles to be traversed in order to tread upon the soil of Dandi, a little town where the waters of the Arabian Sea lapped at its heels. The Mahatma made best use of sporadic breaks by making his personal secretary Mahadev Desai rush to the telegraph office with myriad messages to be dispatched. A smile crinkles the corners of my face as I imagined Bapu revelling in the internet age and composing messages to be sent via e-mail or posted on message boards. The mere mental image of this larger-thanlife Lilliputian surfing the tidal wave of the internet brightened my day for some unfathomable reason.

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IIPM Editorial, 2006

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