Gandhi`s charkha sold for 110,000 pounds at UK auction

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 22:43

Mahatma Gandhi`s over eight-decade old `charkha`, one of his most prized possessions that he used in Yerwada Jail during the `Quit India Movement`, was on Tuesday auctioned in the UK for a whopping 110,000 pounds, nearly double the expected price.

Planning Commission to hold twitter conference on Gandhi Jayanti

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 20:22

Planning Commission will hold a twitter conference to discuss the life and message of Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of his 144th birth anniversary on Wednesday.

Sabarmati Ashram attack was a conspiracy to kill me: Patkar

Last Updated: Thursday, September 5, 2013, 22:57

Social activist and Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar Thursday told a local court that the attack during a public meeting at Sabarmati Ashram here after the 2002 riots was a part of a "conspiracy" to kill her.

Congress leaders detained in Gujarat

Last Updated: Monday, March 12, 2012, 18:46

Top Gujarat Congress leaders were detained on Monday as they tried to take out a rally from Sabarmati Ashram to state capital of Gandhinagar.

Congress leaders detained in Gujarat

Last Updated: Monday, March 12, 2012, 18:38

Top Gujarat Congress leaders and scores of party workers were detained when they tried to take out a rally from Sabarmati Ashram.

Big B spins charkha at Bapu’s Sabarmati Ashram

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 15:43

To woo the global audience through his tourism campaign ‘Khusboo Gujarat Ki’, the states’ tourism brand ambassador and Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan tried his hands at the pre-independence symbol of the nationalist movement made famous by Mahatma Gandhi - the charkha. The sleepy Sabarmati Ashram, abode of Bapu, came alive as the superstar along with a large crew of filmmakers visited the Ashram.