Echoes of Dandi -
Reliving History, One Step at a Time
Some journeys are meant to be completed.
Some are meant to be remembered.
And a few continue to echo long after the walking ends.
What This Is
Echoes of Dandi is a personal chronicle of walking the historic Dandi Salt March route — not to recreate history, but to experience it through the body, the mind, and companionship.
Though the walk was an act of endurance but it was not a fitness challenge, not a reenactment and definitely not a political statement.
It was a slow, deliberate walk across villages, fields, towns, rivers, fatigue, generosity, discomfort, silence, and unexpected clarity, undertaken with fellow walkers, each carrying their own reasons, purpose, limits, and quiet resolve.
What follows is not an attempt to explain the march. It is simply a record of walking it.
The Unsalted Truth - Questions, humour, hesitation, preparation
Every long journey begins much before the first step is taken.
The Unsalted Truth series captures the questions, hesitations, preparations, conversations, and inner shifts that occurred before the march began — when the walk existed only as an idea, a possibility, and a quiet calling.
These reflections form the prelude to the journey. And these are only MY reflections. My fellow walkers would surely have had theirs.
➡️ Read The Unsalted Truth series - ➡️
(These posts can be read independently and in any order.)
The Salted Days - Fifteen Days where intention met effort
The heart of Echoes of Dandi lies here — fifteen days of walking, recorded as they unfolded.
These daily chronicles are meant to be read in sequence, as each day builds quietly upon the previous one — physically, emotionally, and relationally.
➡️ The Dandi March Chronicles: Click on the route to know more
Day 1 — Sabarmati Ashram to Navagam | 3rd January 2026
Day 2 — Navagam to Santram Mandir, Nadiad | 4th January 2026
Day 3 — Santram Mandir, Nadiad to Anand | 5th January 2026
Day 4 — Anand to Kankapura | 6th January 2026
Day 5 — Dandi, Day 5 | [Date]
Day 6 — Dandi, Day 6 | [Date]
Day 7 — Dandi, Day 7 | [Date]
Day 8 — Dandi, Day 8 | [Date]
Day 9 — Dandi, Day 9 | [Date]
Day 10 — Dandi, Day 10 | [Date]
Day 11 — Dandi, Day 11 | [Date]
Day 12 — Dandi, Day 12 | [Date]
Day 13 — Dandi, Day 13 | [Date]
Day 14 — Dandi, Day 14 | [Date]
Day 15 — Dandi, Day 15 | Arrival at Dandi
Each post captures a day as it was lived — the road, the people, the body, the mind, and the quiet lessons that did not register themselves right then.
(I am uploading each days' activities in a sequence. The links for Days 5 to 15 will be activated shortly)
After the Walk
The walk has ended.
The echoes have not.
My Inner Walk ➡️ - My immediate thoughts after the walk was over
Some understandings take time to surface — days, weeks, sometimes longer. This space is intentionally left open for more reflections that emerge after the journey, when life resumes and the walking reveals its deeper imprint.
A Note to the Reader
You don’t need to read everything at once.
You don’t need to agree with every reflection.
You don’t even need to finish the journey.
If you walk a few pages along with me and pause — that is enough.
Amazing journey of 60 year Olds. You all Deserve all praises for doing something so impossible we been to think.
ReplyDeleteSalute to your spirits and your bonding.
Col Srinivasan Sir, This endeavour of your not only reiterates your everlasting will to achieve a goal which we saw in you during your active soldiering days, it’s an inspiration to live challenges of life smilingly and with enthusiasm. You inspired us in the past and you continue to inspire us today. You remain adorable Sir. Regards and best to you
ReplyDeleteA journey well undertaken by the veterans,to relive the great Dandi March undertaken by Father of the Nation almost a century ago. This has awakened the feeling of patriotism once again
ReplyDeleteThank you and the team for this wonderful journey