alternate perception

 This is no virtual blog where i am trying to claim something that is most hyped today- “The Gandhian Values in 21st century”...where we can BLOT PAGES together winning our points over Gandhi’s philosophy or vice versa, but its straight from the experiences we shared with the people in the villages of the land where Gandhiji had marched & fought for our country.

Recollecting those history lessons of our times in schools about the legendary “DANDI MARCH” .....never ever had imagined would be actually be able to visit his place of action.
As a part of our course we were supposed to develop the villages in south Gujarat on the Lines of Gandhian values per se and making it SUSTAINABLE in its own sense..which is another talk of the town these days – The Village of concern was DANDI --Yes the same dandi where the Salt law was broken by Gandhi in 1930’s & marked a revolutionary beginning a new horizon.

We went to the village in the pursuit of some stories about the great fighter....
When we entered the village....we had this so called PERCEPTION of a typical village..the avenues....pinching smell of cattle sheds, the kuchcha roads, and the community spaces which will stare at us when we would cross their zones like the ALIENS in the VILLAGE...and over and above that great stories about our great valiant leader-Mahatma Gandhi..but our perception had an ALTERNATE PERCEPTION too....we soon realised it.

The Heritage house in the villages near dandi....lself contented & self dictating....they do not need us to develop them, any further...

The Gandhi memorial, seemed to be just another place in the village. A calm Silent..least visited ( neither by the villagers nor by the tourists) I guess had gandhiji chosen the beach as its salt law breaking venue....it would have been a BIG HIT..anyways the beach stands as the prime attraction...then why not ganghiji’s event???? Strange but TRUE....

Moreover.....strange but true fact of matter was....hardly people staying there even knew what the march was about...( may be it was the third generation staying there) The stories have not even trikled down to the youth today...and so are they least bothered.
Self sufficient village concept of gandhi.....has 60% of people working in Gulf countries for bread butter leaving the families behind & making the the village work on donations & money orders.....

                                                  Yes....!!!! Its in Dandi...NRI's Bunglow....!!!

Gandhian Values....Sustainablilty even today falls as the last section of any given decription...here it is so, as it follows a background....a background of reality we face today....NO NO i am not justifying being anti gandhian....but then how many of us today , given a choice ( unless given ) would opt for charkha life???

I mean getting your clothes made by yourself...sounds crazy right??? I am saying this as the altrenate perception , but then its like...can we have one “MUNNA BHAI” preaching Gandhism all around ..but the other line of thought also provokes us to think...do we really have to have any kind of “CHEMICAL LOCHA” in our brains to actually prove we are pro gandhians....will it take so much to convince individuals....or is it....we all should start believing in reincarnations...and wait for another GANDHI to join us....to save our earth..these questions i thought will have answers after i return from dandi...but then they just developed as another side of perception....and continues to haunt me further.....!!!!
GANDHI TODAY...

                                                                An Alternate Perception