To mark the 149th Gandhi Jayanti, Mani Bhavan staff and locals came together to spin yarn in the morning.
Students from schools located as far as Dahanu had lined up from 8 am outside Mani Bhavan to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi. To mark the 149th Gandhi Jayanti, Mani Bhavan staff and locals came together to spin yarn in the morning.
"Close to 2,000 students had queued up in the morning and they joined in singing bhajans to commemorate the tall leader. We get many visitors on this day every year; but since 150th Jayanti year celebrations have ,begun the number of visitors this year was overwhelming. Governer Vidysagar ji also visited in the morning and spent half an hour here," said Meghshyam Ajgaonkar, Executive Secretary, Mani Bhavan.
"Around five thousand people have visited since morning, including school children and even foreigners," he said before leaving for Worli's Nehru Centre, where an open to all concert had been organised by Mani Bhavan. "Shubha Mudgal will be singing freedom struggle songs there."
The other activities lined up this week at Mani Bhavan are: Patriotic song competition in Hindi and Marathi for school children, book launch on Saturday, where texts on Gandhi in Gujarati, written by Sonal Parikh, great-granddaughter of the Mahatma, would be inaugurated. 'Mazi Jeevanyatra', a Marathi book written by Appasaheb Patwardhan, a Gandhian, will also be inaugurated on the same day.
"We undertake many rural development work throughout the year, especially in the Konkan region. And on Sunday we will be inaugurating some toilet blocks we had built for the local villagers." Meanwhile, in the nearby Gandhi Book Store run by the Bombay Sarvoday Mandal, as many as 150 autobiographies were sold in a single day.
"On a normal day we see only between four to 10 copies of 'My experiments with truth' being sold. But today, around 70-80 copies of that book in English alone were sold. Another 70 were sold in Marathi, Gujarati, and Hindi languages," said Prem Shankar Tiwari, the manager of the book store near Nana Chowk.
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