Standing With Gandhi in Ahmedabad, Hindustan Times

On 30th January I was in Ahmedabad, a city that was central to Mahatma Gandhis life and work. It was here that he established the most celebrated of his ashrams, on the banks of the Sabarmati River; here that he revised and refined his moral and political philosophy; here that he conceived and planned the Rowlatt Satyagraha, the Non Co-Operation Movement, and the Salt March.

Ahmedabad was once Gandhis city; yet in recent decades Ahmedabad has wilfully, deliberately, turned its back on the...