It was over five decades back in 1972 that hundreds of dacoits, or baagis as they are called locally, voluntarily surrendered in Chambal valley of central India as part of a wider and inspirational social initiative for significant, beneficial, and durable social change achieved by non-violence.
In the early morning of 6 April 1930, on the quiet shores of the Arabian Sea at Dandi in Gujarat, Mahatma Gandhi bent down, picked up a handful of salt, and quietly defied the law of the British Empire.
On March 12, 1930, Mahatma Gandhi stepped out of Sabarmati Ashram with a small group of followers and a simple but radical plan: to challenge British authority over something as basic as salt.
He emphasized that both Mahatma Gandhi and Sree Narayana Guru lacked physical or financial strength but possessed immense, lasting power due to their spiritual strength and commitment to truth.
On 17 February, the world lost one of its most resonant voices for equality - Reverend Je sse L . Jackson, Sr., who passed away at the age of 84.
In speeches across India and the US, Jesse Jackson credited Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence for shaping global civil rights movements and influencing leaders from King to Mandela.
In a befitting tribute to Bapu, Gandhian thinkers, followers, students, and cadets of the NCC and scouts carried out a march from the Central Park to the Gandhi Vatika here this morning.
After paying tributes to the Mahatama at the Governor House ‘Lok Bhavan’ in Bhopal, the Governor observed two-minute silence.
Sharpening his attack on the BJP and the RSS, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Friday made an appeal to save the land of Gandhi by teaching a befitting lesson to the heirs of Godse, who, he said, are out to destroy the nation and attempting to erase the Mahatma.
“Both are damning indictments of the self-declared custodians of nationalism. And to think that there is a Lok Sabha MP wedded to that ideology and who was blessed by the PM himself, who said that he could not choose between Gandhi and Godse. His mindset is revealing. Here is also a link to Nehru’s address on All India Radio on the night of Jan 30, 1948,” he wrote sharing a link.
