Google celebrates Independence Day with Doodle on Gandhi’s Dandi March

Security personnel have been deployed at the airport, market places, railway stations, inter-state bus terminals and metro stations in major Indian cities.

On his many visits over the years, Kerry wrote, “I never cease to be amazed by India’s rich national identity”. Authorities are leaving no stone unturned to ensure that security remains watertight throughout the country.

The mousehover text reads”, Remembering the Dandi March on India 69th Independence Day“. Gandhi and his contingent covered about 390km in 24 days.

Mahatma Gandhi also called the “Father of the Nation” undertook Dandi March on 12 March 1930 as a non violent protest against British India’s suppressing tax regime and salt monopoly, paving way for Civil Disobedience Movement.

Thanks to Google Maps and its Culture Institute, now you can take a virtual tour of some of the historic moments and locations intently related to India’s freedom motion and its eventual independence from the British in 1947.

Google has also added a tour of the dreaded Cellular Jail in Port Blair or Jallianwala Bagh, the site of a tragic massacre of peaceful civilian protesters in 1919 will give a sneak into the hardships experienced by the freedom fighters during their struggle for India’s Independence.