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After a small but vociferous group’s protest on social media over the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) erasing Mahatma Gandhi’s image from the pillar of the Arun Jaitley flyover over the Income-Tax crossroads and replacing it with Savarkar’s portrait, the civic body overnight erased Savarkar’s image as well. Savarkar’s image has come up on the pillar that is located right in […]
Veer Savarkar has been jostling with Mahatma Gandhi for space in the Indian textbooks for the past few years now, courtesy the leanings of the present dispensation in New Delhi. But the brazenness with which the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) erased Mahatma Gandhi’s image from the pillar of a flyover that has come up over […]
While the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad is being redeveloped at total outlay of Rs 1,290 crore, the museum at the site of Gandhi’s birthplace in Porbandar, has been left to neglect. Kirti Mandir, as the museum is called, is located adjacent to Gandhiji’s ancestral house. It is part of the complex. Currently, the first and […]
