Being the Change: In the Footsteps of the Mahatma

Among the many, many people we regularly come across, the ones that have stayed on in our minds are not the rich and the or even the talented or the successful. The ones that have stayed on in our consciousness, invariably, are the ones doing selfless work-those working for the uplift of others.

We are not talking of social work. We are talking about being the change we want to see in the world. Of making one's life one's message the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi that are increasingly becoming relics in the maddening machinery of modern life.

One of us-the bureaucrat-felt the need to document the lives of a few such extraordinary individuals. The other-the journalist has covered most of them in the course of her work spanning two decades.

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