Seventy-seven years to the day of his assassination by Nathuram Godse on January 30, 1948, Mahatma Gandhi’s ideology lives on, giving hope in a world torn apart by conflict.
Say ‘Gandhi’ and the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad comes to mind straight away. But even before that was the Satyagraha Ashram, which stands as a testament to his way of life even today. When Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returned to India after 21 years in South Africa, he was already being hailed by Indians as the Mahatma. At the time, Seth Mangaldas Girdharidas, patriarch of the family behind the luxury hotel The House of MG, convinced Gandhi to set up his first ashram in India. MG even offered to fund the first year’s functioning of the ashram at Kochrab, which came into being on May 25, 1915. A number of people moved in to live and work here at that time. It was only two years later after the plague hit Ahmedabad that Gandhi and his entourage moved to the Sabarmati Ashram on the banks of the Sabarmati River as the open area was considered more hygienic.
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