Visit to Gandhi’s House

Another Post for Delhi, 11/22: Visit to Gandhi’s House

We visited the house where Gandhi spent the last 5 months of his life, August 1947 to January 1948. It contains much memorabilia, and preserves the place of his assassination in the garden. The path back from the garden consists of a covered walkway lined with large posters narrating India’s struggle for independence. I wish we’d had more time to read, but it was dusk and the mosquitoes were out in force. What I read was disappointing, because the posters gave little attention to Gandhi’s pacifist principles except as a strategy that happened to have worked. Every effort was made to credit everyone who resisted the British, including those who used armed struggle.

1. Sculpture of Gandhi with children

2. Footsteps to the assassination site

3. Site of the murder

4. Eulogy for Gandhi by Rabindranath Tagore

Paul