On January 18th, 1902, in the Indian town of Matara, 90 miles southeast of Delhi, a young couple,

Yagti and Chattabudj Bhai celebrate the birth of a baby girl. 10 years later, the child

who they name Lugdi is given up for marriage to a local shopkeeper named Ketanat Chalbi.

After many years of marriage, Lugdi fell pregnant, but was devastated to learn only a week before

she was due to give birth that the baby had died. Some years later, by then 23, Lugdi was overjoyed

to discover she was pregnant once more. But again, there were complications.

Fearing for his wife and unborn child, Ketanat rushed them to the much better equipped hospital

in the city of Agra 30 miles away. It was there the next day, on September 25th, 1925,

that Lugdi gave birth to a healthy baby boy named Navanit.

For Lugdi however, the pregnancy had taken a hefty toll.

She would not live to see the child she had brought into the world, dying nine days later on the

morning of October 4th. 5 years later, and roughly 600 miles to the south, in the coastal town

of Dandee, a gentle-looking man modestly dressed in a pristine white doti and shawl,

reaches down into the wet mud at his feet. Lifting a handful of it into the air,

he turns to the 50,000 strong crowd of men and women who have waited 26 days for this very moment

and declared, with this I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire.

Next, the man filtered salt granules from the mud and placed them in a pot of boiling seawater.

He watched with a smile as the water slowly began to evaporate, liberating the salt from its

bonds, until with the water having all but vanished, the salt was all that remained at the bottom

of the pan. The man was Mahandas Karamchand Ghandi, perhaps better known as Mahatma Ghandi.

With this powerful, peaceful gesture, Ghandi, who had walked for 26 days to get to the coast,

had shown a light on a greedy and restrictive salt tax that had been imposed on the people of

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