Faces of India – 233 Boys in Sabarmati Ashram

Faces of India

a series through which I intend to portray the various characters of my country whom I met during my travels. I bring back souvenirs, frozen moments from my travels, why not some memories of people I have met and interacted during the travels. Faces of India is a weekly series in my blog since MARCH 2011. See more here

Boys in Sabarmati Ashram

Young boys in Sabarmati Ashram with a painting of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

I was in Sabarmati Ashram clicking pictures of Mahatma Gandhi in the huge photographs there. These 2 young boys were keen to be photographed with Mahatma Gandhi’s picture. When I told I can’t give any printout to them, they said it is okay just show us on your screen. They stood as close to Mahatma Gandhi in the photograph as possible, I was touched by their enthusiasm.

I was also impressed about the fact that these boys in Sabarmati Ashram were exploring the life of Gandhi here. Normally boys of their age would be playing around in fields or hooked to their mobile games.

Notice the T-shirt the boy on the right is wearing? The worn out British flag on the boy’s T-shirt. Wonder what Gandhi would have thought about that T-shirt. He had relentlessly worked to end British rule in India!

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