mahatma gandhi – one man can make a difference

Our first visit is to Gandhi Smriti, a museum where he spent the last 144 days of his life and where he was assassinated on 30th January 1948. The museum in the building houses many of the articles and pictures associated with Gandhi's life and death. Guests will be viewing the preserved room where Gandhi lived and the place on the grounds where he was shot while holding his nightly public walk. From here we make our way to Rajghat a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, where he was cremated on 31st January 1948. There is a simple black marble platform that marks the spot of his cremation. It is left open to the sky while an eternal flame burns perpetually at one end. The memorial has the epitaph Hey Ram, (translated O God), believed to be the last words uttered by him