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While dhani feeds a goat and questions the adults, he learns about an upcoming march across Gujarat to Dandi, culminating in salt-making as a deliberate act of protest. The story explains how salt taxation burdens every Indian, intensifying Dhani’s sense of injustice and resolve.","Marching to Freedom  \nAuthor: Subhadra Sen Gupta Illustrator: Tapas Guha  \nEnglish Non Fiction  \nMarching to Freedom  \nAuthor: Subhadra Sen Gupta  \nIllustrator: Tapas Guha Reformatted for Bloom By: Cara Ediger Pratham Books  \nEnglish  \nMarching to Freedom  \nAuthor: Subhadra Sen Gupta  \nIllustrator: Tapas Guha  \nCopyright © 2005, Pratham Books  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nDhani knew something exciting was being planned atthe ashram, but no one would tell him anything.“Just because I’m nine years old,” thought Dhani glumly.“I’m sure they think I’m stupid. I am not!”  \nDhani and his parents lived in a very special place. It was Mahatma Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad where people from all over India came to stay. Like Gandhiji, they were all fighting for India’s freedom.  \nDuring their stay at the ashram, they spent their time spinning khadi thread on charkhas, singing bhajans and listening to Gandhiji’s lectures.  \nAt Sabarmati, everyone had to work – cook and clean, wash clothes, fetch water from the well, milk the cows and goats, and grow vegetables. Even Dhani had a job –  \nHe had to take care of Binni, one of the ashram’s goats.  \nHe quite enjoyed that because Binni was his best friend and he liked talking to her.  \nThat morning, as Dhani fed Binni with fresh grass and changed the water in her bowl, he said,“Something’sup, Binni! They all sit and talk in Gandhiji’s room. They are planning something. I know it!”  \nBinni chewed and nodded as if she understood.  \nDhani felt hungry. He headed towards the kitchen, with Binni skipping along beside him. His mother was fanning the chulha, filling up the room with smoke.  \n“Amma, is Gandhiji going somewhere?” he asked. His mother coughed in the smoke and said,“They are going on a march.”  \n“March? Where are they going?” Dhani queried.“Somewhere near the sea. Now stop asking questions and go away Dhani!” his mother said impatiently.“Let me finish the cooking first.”  \nDhani wandered off to the vegetable garden where old Binda was digging up potatoes.  \n“Binda chacha,” Dhani sat beside him,“are you going on the march too?”  \nBinda shook his head. Before he could say anything, Dhani eagerly asked,“Who is marching? Where are they going? What is happening?”  \nBinda stopped digging and said,“I’ll answer all your questions, but first tie up that troublesome goat. She’s chewing up my spinach.”  \nDhani dragged Binni away and tied her to the lemon tree nearby. Then Binda told him about the march. Gandhiji and some of the men from the ashram were going to walk through Gujarat to reach the sea at a place called Dandi. They would walk through villages and towns for a whole month. Once they reached Dandi, they would make salt.  \n“Salt?” Dhani sat up and frowned.“Why will they make salt? You can buy it in every shop!”  \n“I know,” Binda laughed.“But Mahatmaji has a plan. You know he always marches to protest against something, right?”  \n“Of course I know. He leads the Satyagraha marches to fight the British government and win freedom for India.  \nBut why is he protesting about salt? It’s silly!”“It’s not silly at all, Dhani! Do you know we all have to pay a tax on salt?”  \n“So what?”  \n“Everyone needs salt... that means, every Indian, even the poorest, has to pay this tax,” explained Binda chacha.  \n“That is really unfair!” Dhani’s eyes were hot with anger.","cbCaifApZoslmtGu","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifApZoslmtGu","pdf",79826370,23,"English","en",105,"# Marching to Freedom\n## Life at Sabarmati Ashram\n## The planned march to Dandi\n## Why salt matters","[{\"question\":\"Who is Dhani and where does he live?\",\"answer\":\"Dhani is a nine-year-old boy living with his parents at Mahatma Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad.\"},{\"question\":\"What work do people do at the ashram?\",\"answer\":\"They spin khadi thread, sing bhajans, listen to Gandhi’s lectures, and also complete shared daily chores like cooking, cleaning, fetching water, milking animals, and growing vegetables.\"},{\"question\":\"Where are Gandhi and the men planning to march, and why?\",\"answer\":\"They will march through Gujarat to reach Dandi near the sea, where they will make salt. 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