Gandhi

For some, Gandhi's birthday means empty stomach

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Ludhiana, October 1
They take shelter under Mahatma Gandhi's memorial when he remains forgotten throughout the year. But these homeless are shooed away from his bust, put up on old GT Road, when the ‘‘ritual’’ of remembering him is performed on his birth and death anniversary twice a year.

A number of such people, who are without a house here, spend the night and even run their small time businesses.

But they will be forced to stay away when some important persons will pay tributes to the father of nation on his birth anniversary tomorrow.

Interview with Godse who killed Gandhi

GANDHI VADH KYUN???....Interview with Godse who killed Gandhi.....I

FEBRUARY 14, 2000 VOL. 155 NO. 6

W E B - O N L Y I N T E R V I E W
"His Principle of Peace Was Bogus"
Gopal Godse, co-conspirator in Gandhi's assassination and brother of
the assassin, looks back in anger--and without regret

Hemant Pithwa/India Today

Fifty two years ago, on Jan. 30, 1948, Mohandas Gandhi was shot dead
by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. Godse believed that the Mahatma,
or great soul, was responsible for the 1947 partition of India and the

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