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Article: Gandhi's bust gathering dust in South Africa.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
- Article date:
- September 30, 2009
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Gandhi's bust gathering dust in South Africa
Fakir Hassen Durban, September 30, 2009 (PTI) - A bust of Mahatma Gandhi, which was to have been installed at the railway station in South Africa where the great Indian leader was thrown out of a train in 1893, is collecting dust in a basement.
The bust was donated to the Kwazulu-Natal provincial government four years ago by Indian spiritual leader Sri Satpal Maharaj.
It is yet to be installed at Pietermaritzburg railway station, about 80 km north of here.
It was intended to serve as a perpetual reminder of the day in May 1893 when 24-year-old lawyer Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was thrown of ...