India, May 4 -- A compelling scene in Richard Attenborough's 1982 award-winning film Gandhi, is the relentless lathi attack by the colonial British-led Indian policemen on Indian volunteers who try to enter Dharasana salt works. The Indians neither retaliate nor give up when these lathis crack their bones. Witnessing this, Vince Walker of The New York Times reported in 1930: "They walked, with heads up, without any hope of escape from injury or death. It went on and on and on . Whatever moral ascendancy the West once held was lost here today. India is free, for she has taken all that steel and cruelty can give and she has neither cringed nor retreated." The scenario in Gaza is eerily reminiscent of this episode and whatever little moral ascendancy the West once held, was lost here in Palestine....