Man is always driven by symbols. He needs either a nature or some human form to visualize a God ! Symbols easily convey our message to others . Three colors are enough to control the traffic, so is the rose to love. Our democracy n politics is run by symbols; business is by branding ..!
In early years, I think a person, who used just symbolic acts to awake India and even world is Gandhiji. One such act is Dandi march , to pick salt against law to show British’s exploits. Exactly 80 summers back , Gandhi did this to awake millions of Indians and rest is the history….
Remember 6th april 1930 , when Gandhi reached dandi after 24 days walk from Sabarmati. The incident and impact it has left is in this interesting article by Gopalkrishna Gandhi today in Hindu. whoa ! see how hand full of salt challenged the world's mightiest empire !!! Thats Gandhiji...!! Orwell 's words about gandhiji is worth mention here...
“regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind!”
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