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Google launches online exhibition of postcards inspired by Mahatma Gandhi

Inspired by the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi on his 151st birth anniversary, Google Arts & Culture launched "Be the Voices of Change via Postcards" online exhibition on Friday. Organised in association with Kochi-based non-profit LetterFarms, the online exhibition aims to inspire people to be the change through messages written or painted on handcrafted postcards. The postcards featured in this exhibition bear ideas of change by ordinary citizens, and were handpicked from the nationwide CHANGE150 community art project by LetterFarms. The exhibition comprises a cluster of 10 exhibits each categorised on themes of national relevance such as Equality', Education', Nation', Governance', Health', Community Action', Women's Empowerment', Environment', Rights' and Humanity'. Google Arts & Culture will launch one exhibit every Friday starting October 2 for the next nine weeks. As part of this plan, the first thematic exhibit on "Equality" was launched on Gandhi Jayanti by boxing ...

Burj Khalifa to show Gandhi's images on his 151st birth anniversary: Report

UAE's iconic skyscraper Burj Khalifa would display the images of Mahatma Gandhi as a tribute to the great Indian peace icon on his 151st birth anniversary, a media report said on Friday

Gandhi envisioned Ram Rajya, Modi fulfilling it: Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said Mahatma Gandhi dreamt of a 'Ram Rajya' in the country and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to turn the Father of the Nation's vision into reality

A Gandhian 'romance': Setting the record straight

Book review of Lost Letters and Feminist Histories: The Political Friendship of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Sarala Devi Chaudhurani

Protesters did not even spare statue of Mahatma Gandhi: Donald Trump

Donald Trump has said that protesters did not spare even the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Washington DC, describing the demonstrators as a "bunch of thugs"

Spectacles believed to be worn by Gandhi sell for record 260K pounds in UK

A pair of gold-plated spectacles believed to have been worn by Mahatma Gandhi have broken all records for a UK auction house after a US-based collector acquired them with a bid of 260,000 pounds

Spectacles believed to be worn by Gandhi set auction record in UK

A pair of gold-plated spectacles believed to have been worn by Mahatma Gandhi and presented as a gift in the 1900s have broken all records for a UK auction house by selling for 260,000 pounds

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: PM launches week-long drive to free India of garbage

The week-long campaign to free India of garbage will be till August 15

Fight against injustice: Rahul on 78th anniversary of Quit India Movement

The Quit India Movement was launched by Mahatma Gandhi at the Bombay session of the All-India Congress Committee on August 8, 1942, demanding an end to the British rule in India

Rishi Sunak calls for Mahatma Gandhi on UK coins, writes to Royal Mint

The move follows a letter to the Indian-origin finance minister from the 'We Too Built Britain' campaign calling for a set of coins entitled 'Service to the Nation'

Bill to promote Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr's legacies passed in US

The bill would establish an exchange initiative between the United States and India to study the work and legacies of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr

Dinyar Patel's book, Naoroji, fills a gap in major historical scholarship

Historical scholarship has been so preoccupied with the later nationalists - Gandhi, Patel, Nehru, Bose et al - that it has neglected, or been indifferent to, the individual who started it all.

Desecration of Gandhi statue 'crime against humanity': Ambassador Sandhu

The statue is situated in a small park maintained by the National Park Service, near the Embassy of India in US

Gandhi statue outside Indian Embassy in Washington desecrated by protestors

The status was later covered up and an investigation launched by the local Park Police in charge of protection of monuments in the area

Mahatma Gandhi's anti-untouchability campaign letter to be auctioned

The one-page handwritten letter is signed "M. K. Gandhi," and dated October 9, 1932

An unhealthy practice

It is generally put out that even though the health of the head of the government is a matter of national interest, it should not be a matter of national debate

Harmonic nationalism

For Gandhi, music created spiritual and ethical publics

Partition: The real enemy

Mr Akbar tells this story with his usual diligence about facts and facets and his customary lucidity

Letter to BS: Nehru was a darling of the Indian masses for over two decades

Nehru was chosen over other outstanding leaders by Gandhi because he was a pan-India personality without any regional leaning and a person with international reputation

A poor country of very rich people

Nowhere amidst the efflorescence of the Republic Day parade was there any hint that India was not really that rich country of poor people