Non-violent March, had begun with only 80 people. Gradually the Number Increased to 50,000.

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Stick in hand, the Mahatma walked every day of his life...

A habit that kept his deceptively frail-looking body strong & hardy.....

For most of his adult life, Gandhi weighed around 100 pounds. He was 5’5” tall and his black-and-white photographs give an impression of frailty. 

But nothing could be further from the truth. All his life, he kept a gruelling schedule. He travelled incessantly, criss-crossing the country on train and foot. 

He met and corresponded with a bewildering number of people. He edited, published and wrote regularly for journals such as Young India, Navjivan, Harijan.

All this apart from leading countrywide mass movements against the British, surviving severe fasts and being sentenced to jail no less than 10 times. None of this would have been possible without enviable reserves of endurance. That spare, thin body in its simple loin cloth, was strong and hardy. 

French writer and Nobel winner, Romain Rolland, wrote of him: “This little man, so frail in appearance, is tireless, and fatigue is a word which does not exist in his vocabulary.”

On an average, Gandhi walked around 18 km every day for nearly 40 years. (During his campaigns from 1914 to 1948, it is estimated that he walked approximately 79,000 km, which is equivalent to circling the Earth twice.)

Walking was an inseparable part of his daily schedule. Even when he was recovering from an appendicitis operation in 1924 in Bombay, he walked for 40 minutes on the Juhu seashore every day.

In London in 1931 for the Round Table Conference, he continued to wake up at 4am, pray for an hour, then go for a walk through the deserted streets of the city.

Of course, the walk that Gandhi is known for is the great Dandi march, undertaken when the Mahatma was 60+. He walked 386 km in 1931 over 24 days, from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi on the coast, to break the salt law. This was the walk that shook the foundation of the British empire in India!!

The march began to protest against the British rule which prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt. Due to the monopoly of the British Government, they sold salt with heavy taxes on it and Indians were forced to buy from them.

To oppose this, Dandi March was led by Gandhiji. After reaching Dandi, Gandhi ji broke the salt law imposed by the British Government by producing illegal salt on the seashores.

After Gandhi ji’s move, various people started breaking the law by producing, selling and buying illegal salt. This gave birth to the mass civil disobedience movement.

The 24-day long non-violent march, had begun with only 80 people. But, as it progressed towards its destination, the number increased to 50,000.

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