The Gandhian Spirit

Be it in Bilgaon’s micro hydel project or in the Tilonia Project of non violence education Gandhi’s experiments with truth still continue even 58 years after he left. If Dilip’s post summarizes the change these experiments have undergone then the Telecom Italia’s add does indicate the manifold effect of these experiments in a changed world.

Marty’s day does revive this Gandhian spirit in most of us. We realize that something of the sort of Bilgaon or Tilonia to happen we need to keep this spirit alive and hence we at IIM Indore organized a small blood donation camp.

Statistically, for any city, the yearly requirement of blood is merely 1% of the total population of the city. Indore has a population of around 30,00,000 which means only 30,000 people need to donate blood once a year. Medically a person can donate 1 unit i.e. 300ml of blood every 3 months hence we require merely 7.5 thousand people to donate blood 4 times a year. Interestingly not even this 0.25% of people is available from this historical city.

I hope a small contribution of 85 units from the IIM Indore family would in some way help revive the Gandhian spirit and not confine it merely to the statues on squares.