Sabarmati Ashram

A violent life.

Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad

Selective Gandhi Series No 3: Padayatra.

"For bringing awareness and awakening..."





Maybe, like us today, most people those days must have been only worried about the ordinary things. The freedom struggle was something you heard about on the news and you couldn't afford tea leaves to Jago Re out of your charpoy. How do you awaken a population that's mostly illiterate and has an average life expectancy of about 25 years (1921/31 census) to follow you?

Ask the Mahatma.

Sacred cause and effect.

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Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad

Selective Gandhi Series No 2

So it's nothing new, Congress and corruption. And here it is listed as one of his worries by Gandhi himself.

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Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad

Selective Gandhi Series NO 1: Kasturba

Kasturba Gandhi's corner in the museum at Mahatma Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram.




Stubborn.



Kasturba's grandchildren.



The domestic life of the Father of the Nation must have been very interesting.

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Sabarmati River, Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad skyline from Mahatma Gandhi Bridge. And the still water smells like the collective waste of an Indian city. But that shouldn't affect a person from Mumbai, used to much stronger scents.