Things That Bang

Though he is called the Father of the Nation but Gandhi's ashes have suffered as much neglect as his non-violence legacy in India. On the 60th anniversary of his assassination an urn of his ashes was opened on the Arabian Sea by his great-granddaughter Nilamben Parikh in Mumbai.

Hindu rites were also performed during the vesarjan. But according to Hindu traditions the soul is not at peace till all the required prayers and customs are completed but it seems his soul is stuck in a limbo.

Eleven years ago they had found an urn with Gandhi's ashes in bank locker in Orissa and now this new one. How many are lost or hoarded? Next we will hear that an urn was smuggled out of the country and lies in some rich dude's vault with the Mahatma's soul fretting over it.