A padyatra that began on October 2 in Varanasi and concluded in Delhi on November 26, Constitution Day, could well be titled “Walking many leagues with Mahatma Gandhi”. Yet Sarva Seva Sangh chose modesty over loud claims and called this endeavour: “Ek kadam Gandhi ke saath”.

This may explain why the approximately 1000-kilometre yatra involving several thousand people was mostly ignored by mainstream media. The yatra raises two key questions. A quarter of the way into the 21st century, what does it mean to “walk with Gandhi”? And, do actions driven by the love of intrinsic value still count?

The yatris were asking for the letter and spirit of the Indian Constitution to be honoured. But the Delhi police did not allow them to walk from Rajghat to Jantar Mantar, where the concluding

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