Gandhi’s belongings auctioned : material for a mystery thriller
After several days of controversy, Gandhi’s belongings were auctioned in New York and Industrialist and MP, Vjay Mallaya has bought the belongings.
But many question arises.
How James Otis got these belongings of Gandhi Ji? Who gave him these things?
Who was the first foreigner, who got possession of these personal things of Gandhi Ji?
How these pride possessions of the nation, which should have been with the Navjeevan trust, went out of the country?
Were these things stolen in the past and smuggled outside of the country to quench the thirst of collectors living everywhere in the world?
How these things reached to USA?
Gandhi never visited USA so that he could have gifted these things to any American. If any American disciple or friend of Gandhi was gifted these things by Gandhi himself, then do we have some kind of record for this?
History of these belongings is transparent? Or its an ambigous history, like history of everyother thing?
Will letter of authentification be made public?
Tags: Gandhi, India, James Otis, Navjeevan Trust, New York, USA, Vijay Mallya
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I have always had questions like what happens to stuff smuggled from museums, art galleries. I always wondered why someone would steal something they cannot show off so easily, since stealing would create such furor. But, this episode is an answer of those questions.
@Tejas,
Perhaps Lust for possessing rare and exceptional things. When one accumulates obscene amount of wealth then he has to possess things not seen with others.
India suffers from this lust as things can be manipulatd here by bribery and rare things have been taking out of country with the help of shallow greed of own countrymen.
And people’s less interest in museums, monuments and historical places of precious value makes it easy as months and years people can not know.
Preservation is still a far distant art for India. When whole world is hankering after material and preservation, India, alone, can not follow , sab maya hai, principle in all the areas. In material area it has to learn art of preservation.
story about how the articles landed up there: http://tinyurl.com/ck83sr
@Narendra Bendi,
Sandals – Given to an Army officer
Specs – Given to an army officer
Bowls- no mention,
An army officer? en route to London from Bombay,
These things make giving ambigous.
Its a well known fact that Gandhi Ji used to take money to give autographs for the fund of Harijan Kalyan kosh or something like that. He knew very well the importance of his belongings. This explanation by auction house does not satisfy much. Historians and record keeper of Gandhi’s things will surely be busy in digging the truth behind this event and hopefully in few days we hear something different.