Charkha Jayanti, or Spinning Wheel Birthday, was how Gandhi wanted October 2nd to be remembered. The spinning wheel was at the heart of Gandhi’s constructive program to free India through self-sufficiency and economic uplift. Gandhi had preferred that rather than being used to celebrate his own image, his birthday be used as a celebration of the constructive work that he put in motion. On this Charkha Jayanti may we all honor Gandhi’s legacy by continuing the great experiment of global nonviolent change!