THE PRESENT-DAY SALT SATYAGRAHA…
This year we are celebrating the 150 th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation – Mahatma Gandhi. It is an ideal time to remember all the iconic movements initiated by him, which started small but slowly became a mass movement. He led the Dandi March or the Salt Satyagraha – a non - violent campaign to produce salt from sea water. It was aimed at producing salt illegally, symbolically, to protest against British rule. The Salt Satyagraha drew national and international attention towards India’s Independence Movement against colonial rule. As we celebrate the 150 th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, as a corollary, it is axiomatic in today’s times that we initiate a movement to fight against lifestyle diseases. A small but significant beginning to control the epidemic of hypertension, would be to initiate the Salt Satyagraha once again or a veritable Low Salt Movement. I...