Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Mani Bhavan

Yesterday Anna and I visited Gandhi's house in Mumbai. This is the house where Gandhi stayed everytime he came to Bombay. Here he began his famous "Quit India" campaign, learned the Indian art of spinning, began his most famous hunger strike, and was arrested on the famous balcony. The house is very low key, just as Gandhi would have like it. A lot of tourists don't know about it because it is not in a tourist area (actually it is pretty close to our flat). We visited for the second time to take pictures, it is a beatiful 3 floor building with a library for Gandhian research, an auditorium where children learn ancient Indian arts (like spinning, sandskrit poerty, etc.), and has the roon where Gandhi lived exactly like he left it. Enjoy!





























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