MPs urge Gandhi sale intervention

[Coventina]

Source: BBC

A number of Indian MPs are calling for Mahatma Gandhi's personal possessions, due for auction in New York next month, to be returned to India.

Mahatma Gandhi's spectacles, which he once said gave him "the vision to free India", a pair of his sandals and his pocket watch are among the items.

MPs across Indian parties have said that all efforts should be made to retrieve the possessions.

Auctioneers have put an estimate of £30,000 ($42,000) on the items.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7888850.stm

[YOY]

1. I dare say they belong in an Indian Museum.

n.t.

[AllentownJake]

2. This would be like selling Lincoln or Washington items

These belong to the Indian people not is some rich asshole's show room.

[No Elephants]

3. Things signed by, or that once belonged to Lincoln and Washington get sold at

auction all the time. If a museum wants something, it bids on it, just like anyone else.

[Coventina]

4. Yeah, watching "Antiques Roadshow" you see it all the time.

It's amazing what people have stashed away...