Shortly after, Nehru wept as he told the nation from the gates of Birla House in what is believed to be one of the greatest speeches of the world, "The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere."Ĭonverted into a national memorial in 1973, the Gandhi Smriti complex today preserves the room where Gandhi stayed, long galleries filled with his photographs and letters depicting important events of his life, and a multimedia museum with interactive instruments. And he wrote 1,000 letters a day," said Yuvraj.Ĭemented footsteps retrace Gandhi's last walk to the place where Godse was waiting for him, touching his feet before assassinating him. The student from Bal Bharati Public School, Pitampura, was among the hundreds of school children at Gandhi Smriti, ahead of Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary on October 2.Īsked what they knew about the place, the students chime in together, but not in a comprehensible sequence of events.
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