Long March: Blistered feet, unbroken spirit
“Inquilab Zindabad,” shouted a farm leader. “Zindabad, Zindabad,” the farmers responded. At the end of a gruelling march across 180 kilometres, the exhausted farmers’ chants at Azad Maidan in south Mumbai – where the morcha concluded on March 12 – were less robust than they were in Nashik, where the march began on March 6 (See From farm and forest: Long March to Mumbai). But their collective spirit remained unbeaten. Even after a week of walking in the heat, many with blistered and bleeding feet, sleeping out in the open during the nights, eating little food, even then the cries of “Inquilab Zindabad” didn’t go unanswered.
