Almost 90 years after the Dandi March, a photographer traces Mahatma Gandhi’s journey

‘23 Grams of Salt’, a photobook by Anuj Ambalal, takes the viewers through the sites of the Dandi March, 90 years later

Two years, around hundred villages and over 250 photographs. This is all it took photographer Anuj Ambalal to retrace the steps of Mahatma Gandhi on his march to the coastal town Dandi, 90 years later.

Be it the spot where Gandhi wrote his famous letter to the Viceroy Lord Irwin where now stands his framed photograph on a charpoy; or the hallowed halls of the room he stayed in, when he passed by Boriavi, that now looks desolate — vignettes of the pit stops and how they look today form the core of the photobook, 23 Grams of Salt (published by Navajivan Trust).

Last week, at Amethyst’s quaint exhibition space, The Folly, a tightly-knit group were in conversation over the same photographs projected on screen.