Gandhi Smriti
Memorial mansion where Mahatma Gandhi spent his last days and was shot in its garden.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Gandhi Smriti in Delhi opens in September 1947, when Gandhi arrived at Birla House with the city convulsed by Partition riots, and follows the fast unto death he announced the following January to force peace between Hindus and Muslims. You'll hear who came to his bedside as the fast stretched on, and how Delhi's violence finally broke. From there the guide follows Gandhi through the twelve days that remained to him, ending in this same garden on an ordinary evening walk to prayers.
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