For Gandhi, the spinning wheel symbolized the need to assume personal responsibility for consumption as a first step toward achieving justice and freedom for all. But Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, believed in industrialization and urbanization, famously calling the new mega-dam projects his government underwrote the “temples of modern India.”
对甘地来说，转轮象征着个体对消费的负责任行为，这也是实现全民公平自由的前提条件。而印度第一任总理贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁则不以为然，他秉承着工业化和城市化的理念，他有一句著名的话，就是将政府正在进行的巨大工程称为“印度现代化的神殿”。