how can you say that pinch of salt proved mightier than a train load of dynamite?
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They had been walking for more than three weeks. Day after day, they had trudge ocer the flat, dry countryside trunded brown and dusty by the hot summer sun. And now they stood on the sea shore, at the village of Dandi, with the waves of the Arabian sea lapping the beach
They were the 'law breakers' and that was where they were to break the law forbidding them to make salt or even pick it up for their use from the deposits left by the sea.
Their leader was Mohandas karamchand Gandhi , known all over India as Gandhiji or mahatma Gandhi. The dandi march was a part of the movement he called satyagraha or the pursuit of truth
Twenty-four years earlier, in south Africa, where he was then living,his satyagraha had forced the government to repeal the law forcing indians in the trasvaal to the register themselves and carry certificates bearing their fingers prints to prove that they had the rights to live in that country.
In India, he was applying the same tactics of defying the authority of the alien British government in a peaceful, non-violent way and refusing to co-operate with it.