First posted at Waging Nonviolence. That the Salt March might at once be considered a pivotal advance for the cause of Indian independence and a botched campaign that produced little tangible result ...

Every April 13 for the past 25 years, D. Sakthi Selvaganapathi, a horologist from Tiruvarur, makes his way to the Trichy cantonment. There, he joins fellow Gandhians for a 240 km salt march, ...

ROME – When Mahatma Ghandi launched his famous “Salt March” in March 1930, protesting British policies banning Indians from producing their own salt, thereby compelling them to buy heavily taxed ...

There is hardly anyone left who was alive when the revolutionary salt march began- March 12, 1930. The 24-day march from Sabarmati Ashram, reached Dandi on April 06, 1930. All in all, one has to be ...

History remembers Mohandas Gandhi’s Salt March as one of the great episodes of resistance in the past century and as a campaign which struck a decisive blow against British imperialism. In the early ...