Ms. Savita Desai has been interviewed by Mr. Peter Ruhe (Founder-chairperson of GandhiServe Foundation) on 25 February 2005 at her residence in Mumbai - Santa Cruz, India. The talk is of 52 min 51 sec. about her involvement in India's independence movement led by Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi. Summary: Born at Dharasana (Gujarat) c. 1919, five sisters and one brother, very poor Hindu farmer family which sympathised with Gandhi and the independence movement, grandfather worked in Congress party, witnessed the raiding of Dharasana Salt Works in 1930: countless freedom fighters who tried to enter the salt works received heavy lathi (bamboo stick) charge incl. her father and uncles, completed 4th year of studies at Gujarati medium Poddar School at Mumbai Santacruz, married at age of 17 in a simple Gandhian marriage in the presence of only 21 people, together with husband burned foreign clothes and wore only khadi clothes throughout, got involved in freedom struggle as grandfather demanded...