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Salt satyagraha

I was barely four years old when satyagrahis reached Tirukkattuppalli on their march to Vedaranyam to break the salt law. My father decided to provide lunch to the satyagrahis in Tirukkattuppalli. The food was cooked in my ancestral home in Pazhamarneri, about a mile from Tirukkattuppalli. The lunch was served without any trouble from the police or any other source.

But my grandfather, who was then living in that ancestral home on government pension received a notice within 72 hours from the Government of Madras, asking why his pension should not be stopped as he had identified himself with anti-Government forces.

He replied saying his house was an ancestral property in which my father had occupancy rights. And that the food was cooked in the portion allotted to my father over which my grandfather had no control. His pension therefore, he said, should not be stopped. It was not.

D. Ramanthan,
Chennai

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