Gandhi's ashes scattered at sea (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

Ashes of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi have been scattered off the coast of Mumbai to mark the 60th anniversary of his assassination.

An urn containing the ashes was opened and they were mixed with water from the Arabian Sea by his great-granddaughter Nilamben Parikh.

The ceremony was in accordance with Hindu rites.

Gandhi - called Mahatma or "Great Soul" - spearheaded a non-violent campaign against the British Raj.

'Come together'

His campaign culminated in India getting its independence in 1947.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7217111.stm

[saltpoint]

1. I read your title line too quickly, eppur_se_muova, and thought it said:

"Giuliani's ashes scattered to sea."

And I thought, damn, that IS a hopeful outcome!

[Canuckistanian]

2. Gandhi's ashes were already spread onto the Ganges river

I guess they kept some for later purposes.

I remember specifically that it was big news about Gandhi's ash-scattering ceremony in 1948.

I even remember the picture, although it is nowhere to be found on Google.

[frogmarch]

3. Thanks for posting the excerpt and link..

I found this additional information at Wiki:

"Gandhi's ashes were poured into urns which were sent across India for memorial services. Most were immersed at the Sangam at Allahabad on 12 February 1948 but some were secreted away.<23> In 1997, Tushar Gandhi immersed the contents of one urn, found in a bank vault and reclaimed through the courts, at the Sangam at Allahabad.<24><25> On 30 January 2008 the contents of another urn were immersed at Girgaum Chowpatty by the family after a Dubai-based businessman had sent it to a Mumbai museum.<26> Another urn has ended up in a palace of the Aga Khan in Pune<27> (where he had been imprisoned from 1942 to 1944) and another in the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine in Los Angeles.<28> The family is aware that these enshrined ashes could be misused for political purposes but does not want to have them removed because it would entail breaking the shrines."

A great man he was.