How Champaran’s Indigo Kicked Off Gandhi’s Freedom Struggle

Bapu’s Karmabhoomi Fights To Keep His Memories Alive

• The Times of India (Mumbai edition)
• 25 Sep 2019
• Anam.Ajmal@timesgroup.com

Pramod Sharma

A display about Gandhi at the Bapudham Motihari Station (left) in Champaran. A commemorative stamp (right) released in 2017 to mark 100 years since the Champaran Satyagraha

Once a proud mansion, Belwa Kothi now wears the sadness of a ruin. The roof has surrendered to time, and the plaster is peeling. Close at hand lies a crumbling factory overrun by wild grass, f...