Up for sale: Gandhi items — and his ideals FEATURE 04/05/2010

Up for sale: Gandhi items — and his ideals

FEATURE 04/05/2010 AHMEDABAD — The Beatles removed Mahatma Gandhi’s picture from the 1967 album cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in case it upset Indians, but such restraint is now a thing of the past. Today, Gandhi memorabilia is auctioned off in New York and London with his scant personal possessions attracting sky high prices, while his image is used on pens, billboards and souvenirs. “People want to buy every piece of history associated with the great man,” Tushar Gandhi, the great-grandson of India’s independence leader, told AFP. “Anything that comes with a ‘Gandhi’ tag sells, and India has not been able to protect the items belonging to the father of the nation.”.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100405com5.html

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