03-12-2005, 06:44 AM
I dont know whether this is related or not. I will let other mods decide if this post should be in this thread or not. I was just wondering what if Gandhi were alive today. How would his dandi yatra be ?
http://us.rediff.com/news/2005/mar/12dandi.htm
Dandi March with a touch of 2005 (Diwanji)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Seventy-five years after the march, the Ashram is spruced up to relive history. Tushar Gandhi, great grandson of Mohandas and Kasturba Gandhi, and head of the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, is holding the Dandi Yatra. Some 75-odd Congress workers from all over India will join him.
With the Congress party's involvement, there is no doubt the march, which was initially conceived as a platinum anniversary march, has acquired a political colour.
Congress party President Sonia Gandhi will flag off the march and may attend the final day's event. If she does not, the organisers expect Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to attend it.
The Congress march and the Tushar Gandhi march were to be separate. "Since we are both doing the same thing for the same reasons, we saw no reason to hold separate marches," explained Minister of Sports Sunil Dutt, who is in charge of the Congress participants.
But the difference is patent. The Congress marchers are party workers. Tushar Gandhi's event is eclectic, drawing people from all over India and the world.
On the eve of the march, his office, opposite the Ashram, is making passes for the hundreds of those keen to participate.
Not all participants plan to walk the entire route.
The 75th anniversary march hopes to recreate the spirit of the 1930s. The marchers will take the same route at the same time and observe the three halts Gandhi made.
The yatris will spend the nights in tents and subsist on frugal, vegetarian meals.
But 2005 is not 1930.
Accompanying the yatris will be vehicles to carry bags, so the marchers only need to carry the bare minimum stuff, including water (summer starts early in Gujarat!).
More importantly, to allow people to stay in touch with home, the yatris will have access to a mobile Internet café.
Reliance Infocomm will send a wireless Internet-enabled van along with the yatris. "A foreign participant told us she needed to e-mail her mother. We told her not to worry," explained an organiser.
It remains to be seen whether it is a 1930 march with a touch of 2005, or vice versa.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://us.rediff.com/news/2005/mar/12dandi.htm
Dandi March with a touch of 2005 (Diwanji)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Seventy-five years after the march, the Ashram is spruced up to relive history. Tushar Gandhi, great grandson of Mohandas and Kasturba Gandhi, and head of the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, is holding the Dandi Yatra. Some 75-odd Congress workers from all over India will join him.
With the Congress party's involvement, there is no doubt the march, which was initially conceived as a platinum anniversary march, has acquired a political colour.
Congress party President Sonia Gandhi will flag off the march and may attend the final day's event. If she does not, the organisers expect Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to attend it.
The Congress march and the Tushar Gandhi march were to be separate. "Since we are both doing the same thing for the same reasons, we saw no reason to hold separate marches," explained Minister of Sports Sunil Dutt, who is in charge of the Congress participants.
But the difference is patent. The Congress marchers are party workers. Tushar Gandhi's event is eclectic, drawing people from all over India and the world.
On the eve of the march, his office, opposite the Ashram, is making passes for the hundreds of those keen to participate.
Not all participants plan to walk the entire route.
The 75th anniversary march hopes to recreate the spirit of the 1930s. The marchers will take the same route at the same time and observe the three halts Gandhi made.
The yatris will spend the nights in tents and subsist on frugal, vegetarian meals.
But 2005 is not 1930.
Accompanying the yatris will be vehicles to carry bags, so the marchers only need to carry the bare minimum stuff, including water (summer starts early in Gujarat!).
More importantly, to allow people to stay in touch with home, the yatris will have access to a mobile Internet café.
Reliance Infocomm will send a wireless Internet-enabled van along with the yatris. "A foreign participant told us she needed to e-mail her mother. We told her not to worry," explained an organiser.
It remains to be seen whether it is a 1930 march with a touch of 2005, or vice versa.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->