Last year, an 80-year-old charkha that Gandhiji had used while in Yerwada Jail during the 1984 Quit India Movement was auctioned in Britain for £110,000 (nearly Dh6.87 million).

This will eliminate poverty. Gandhiji considered the wheel as a divine weapon, Charkha is a tool that can change people from within. Charkha can also make the country stand on its feet.

How about spinning a charkha to light your house? The enduring symbol of our freedom struggle and the self-sufficiency espoused by Gandhiji has now got a new avatar, one that the Mahatma may well ...

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It was incongruous given Johnson’s own worldview and politics which are the farthest from Gandhi’s, and unlike say, Martin Luther King turning the charkha. But the substance does not matter ...

This is a gift from Gandhiji to our country,” says Bhargavi Seth, one of the practitioners and a charkha student at Mani Bhavan. Gandhiji associated spinning charkha as a way to connect God.

But like Gandhiji, his ideological opponents too never give up. Unable to shake off his influence, the current government seems to have reduced his legacy to the jhadu and charkha.

The 154th Gandhi Jayanti is over. Long live Gandhiji… That is, if the Mahatma still matters. The Father of the Nation has been downgraded from a global icon to a notion. Soon… very, very soon ...

Later, when Gandhiji was arrested, I joined a students’s protest.” Upholding nationalist values, Moothathu mostly wore khadar garments, and was an ace at spinning the charkha.

Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 81, No. 4 (October 2020), pp. 643-662 (20 pages) This essay interrogates the role of the charkha (spinning wheel) in Mohandas Gandhi's thought. It argues that ...