Doctor in ashram offers succor to 400 villages with Gandhian lifestyle

Vibha Augustin works in interior UP with belief that you have to be the change you want.

The Banwasi Seva Ashram, a voluntary organisation, was established in 1954 by Gobind Ballabh Pant dedicated to gram swarajya: Based on the principle that cooperative self-sufficiency of a village could create a model of self-reliance and nurture the innate decency of human beings, even if they were unlettered. 

Some of Mahatma Gandhi’s principles roll off the tongue smoothly and sound practised and glib today. For instance, that there is enough in the world for everyone’s need but not enough for everyone’s greed. Gandhi saw village life as the ideal form of intimate sacrifice and high culture, where tiny republic state based