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Gandhi, leaning on a lacquered bamboo staff, soon set out along the winding, dusty road. His destination: Dandi, 240 miles away, where 25 days later he would collect a few grains of salt in defiance of the British tax that forced locals to pay prices for the compound that were said to be up to 2,000% greater than its production costs. Following his lead, thousands of Indian villagers waded into the sea to extract salt themselves. Thus began Gandhi's campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience--and the beginning of the end of the British Empire. --By Amanda Bower
Still, many of us can't resist. "My fantasy is to pick on parents the same way their kids have picked on my daughter," says Dandi Daley Mackall of Cinnamon Lake, Ohio, whose daughter, 18, has been teased about her speech impairments. Mackall has called parents but found them defensive or in denial...
...greatness? In what does it reside? If a man's project fails, or survives only in irredeemably tarnished form, can the force of his example still merit the extreme accolade? For Jawaharlal Nehru, the defining image of Gandhi was "as I saw him marching, staff in hand, to Dandi on the Salt March in 1930. Here was the pilgrim on his quest of Truth, quiet, peaceful, determined and fearless, who would continue that quest and pilgrimage, regardless of consequences." Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi later said, "More than his words, his life was his message." These days, that message...
...Which took place during March and April, 1930, when the Indian leader hiked for 24 days to the sea at Dandi and symbolically broke the British salt monopoly...
Best-remembered scenes: the historic 1930 Dandi march, in which he led thousands of Indians in a 200-mile trek to the sea to protest the salt tax; his repeated imprisonments; his fasts, which were effective moral protests that fired India's millions and the world; his death at the hands of a Hindu extremist, which put an ironically violent end to a life dedicated to nonviolence...