Mahatma Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram is located in the Sabarmati suburb in Ahmedabad. The place has a lot of trees around. On these trees, you will find hundreds of birds eating the fruits and chirping happily. The tranquil and serene atmosphere is the most salient feature of this ashram. A visitor to this place experiences calm and internal peace once he is here. The gentle breeze from the river bank and the calm atmosphere brings back memories of Gandhiji’s many historical decisions that were taken from here. The ashram has many buildings and the most important of them is the ‘Hridaya Kunj’. This was where Gandhiji spent his time and met visitors. Today this is a mini museum where some of the personal relics of Gandhi are displayed.
This include his vessels, clothes, glasses and the famous walking-stick he used those days. The river bank has been walled with concrete and the path to the river has been paved with tiles. There are two bridges built across the river banks. The historical Dandi March began from this Ashram. It was this march which he began as a protest against the British government marching towards the 240miles away Dandi sea shore along with his 78 followers and the subsequent illegal production of salt that motivated thousands across the country to fight the British monopoly. Gandhiji and his wife Kasturba lived here for 12 years weaving their own clothes using charkha. A model of the Charkha made of wood is kept on the veranda of the ashram. Visitors are allowed to sit here and spin this charkha reminiscing the golden history of freedom movement
