In one of his lesser known essays titled City and Village, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore has talked about how the city has evolved from the village and the need for a harmonious rather than exploitative relationship between the two. In many of his articles in Harijan and earlier in Navjivan, Mahatma Gandhi has also written extensively on his idea of an ideal village and how “independence must begin at the bottom with every village being a Republic or Panchayat with full powers”. (Click the link below, to read on)

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