Who was Mahatma Gandhi and what impact did he have on India? His first target was the £3 ($3 69) tax on people of Indian origin Preaching a strategy of satyagraha, or nonviolent protest, Gandhi organized a strike and led a march of more than 2,000 people to call for the tax to be scrapped
These are the challenges facing India’s most sacred river The river and its tributaries touch the lives of roughly 500 million people But having flowed for millennia, today it is reaching its capacity for human and industrial waste, while simultaneously being drained for agriculture and municipal use