In France, graphology is a very important means of assessing the application of a future employee and determining his suitability for a job. Standing in the quietness of the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, I studied this beautiful handwriting of Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948) and wondered what a Graphologist would make of it. The calligraphy is flowing and confident - i's are dotted and then elegantly looped in attachment to the next word, the tails of y's are similarly looped up to the next word, as are the cross bars of the t's - the rhythm is a perfect balance between forward movement and a long pause.
Gandhi was born in Gujarat and trained in Law at the Inner Temple in London. After a stint in South Africa, where he formulated many of his ideas about Civil Rights and Freedom, he returned to India. He lived at the Ashram in Ahmedabad on the Banks of the Sabarmati River for 12 years and set up a tertiary school for manual labour, agriculture and literacy. And it was here that he embarked, with 78 companions, on the 241 mile Dandi Salt Protest March in 1930, to highlight the unfairness of the salt tax.
I wondered whether his thoughts would be any different, when applied to the toxic global community that we live in now....!
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