Contributed by: Dr. R. Boradkar
Shrimati Mandakini Dharmchand Gandhi is 82 years old. Born
in Chicholi Taluka Khed District Ratnagiri. Her father was a grocer and a
farmer..
She spent her child hood in Khavati a town on Mumbai Goa
highway. The town had water shortage and she remembers that she used to get up
at mid night to fetch water from the well.
She was married to Shri Gandhi when she was seventeen, and
came to Mahad. Her Husband was a clerk in the court. Her father presented her a
buffalo. It was brought by two servants through Kashedi Ghat . They had to walk
all the way. She has a large family of five sons thirteen grandsons and twenty
two great grandsons.,
She remembers the satyagraha spearheaded by Dr Babasaheb
Ambedkar for water . The tank was known as Chavdar Tale.[Tasty Lake] Now it is
a famous place.
The second event she remembers is the death of Martyr
Kamlakar Deshpande. This young man was a
victim of British bullets. He had an old mother and her grief must have been
heartbreaking. Whenever she recollects the incident she feels very sorry for Deshpande’s
mother
.
Mahad witnessed an epidemic of plague in 1940-42. They
shifted to a place called Dadli and stayed in small huts.
She now stays with
her daughter in Pune. She is fit enough to look after herself.
She enjoys reading news papers, religious books and watching
serials on T,V.
After all what else is happiness?
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