75 years ago...

Wednesday, march 12 1930
6.30 am:
The great man, sets out on foot for dandi from Ahemdabad, a journey of 240 miles, to break the salt law.75 years later they try to retrace his path.
'Mahatma' as we know him, perhaps the greatest Indian ever, did more than anybody else for India’s independence. (Now don't write an essay on him...you already did that in your 7th grade).


CAUTION: DANGER AHEAD
75 years later we retrace his path; we remember his sacrifices, works, hardships, achievements, failures but not his teachings. Perhaps in the case of every great personality, be it anybody from Guru Nanak to Jesus Christ or Martin Luther King to Mahatma Gandhi, we remember their birthdays, death anniversaries, but we forget only thing they would have wanted us to remember: their teachings. We started fighting day after Gandhi died and continue till this day. We put their portraits in offices and houses (Hindi film inspiration eh...?) But never honor them by practicing what they taught us. INDIVIDUALS HAVE BECOME GREATER THAN PRINCIPLES AND THEIR OWN IDEALS. You would say when we remember them, we remember what they practiced and preached, but that never seems to happen. IDEALS have become what they are meant to be “Philosophical teachings which are abstract”.