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Salt, Memory and a Troubling Legacy: Rethinking Gandhi Today

Nearly a century after Gandhi began the Salt March on this day in 1930, the man who once stood at the moral centre of India’s freedom struggle occupies a far more uncertain place in the nation’s imagination. Revered, criticised and frequently reinterpreted, Gandhi today is less a saintly icon than a figure whose ideas continue to provoke debate about the meaning of power, resistance and democracy in modern India.

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