Bachchan reads Mahatma's words on "Tomorrow's World" at London ceremony

Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan on Saturday read out an excerpt from Mahatma Gandhi's 'The World of Tomorrow' at Parliament Square in London during the unveiling of the Father of the Nation's bronze statue.

The nine-foot long statue of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled by British Prime Minister David Cameron and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

The extract from by Mahatma Gandhi work read, "Perhaps never before has there been so much speculation about the future as there is today. Will our world be always of violence, will there always be poverty, starvation, misery. Will we have a firmer belief in religion or will the world be godless. If there is to be a great change in the society, how will that change be wrought? By war or revolution or will it come peacefully. Different men give different answers to these questions. "

Mahatma Gandhi's statue will join the figures of many prominent world leaders at London's Parliament Square including that of former British prime minister Winston Churchill, who had described father of the nation as a 'half-naked fakir'.

Mahatma Gandhi is the first Indian to be honoured with a statue at the Parliament Square.