Mahatma Gandhi Glasses

A pair of gold-plated glasses worn byMahatma Gandhi has sold in Britain for 260,000 pounds (about 288,000 euros, $340,000), the auction house said.

A "rare and important" pair of iconic glasses worn by Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi look set to sell for tens of thousands of pounds after a British auction house put them up for sale on Monday.

A pair of gold-plated spectacles believed to have been worn by Mahatma Gandhi and presented as a gift in the 1900s have emerged on the UK auction circuit, estimated to fetch between 10,000 pounds and 15,000 pounds.

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi has been vandalised at Kannur in Kerala at about 7 am on Thursday. An unidentified person has broken the glasses and garland on the statue. Local people claim they saw the man targeting the statue. Police have started an investigation

BJP today raked up past cases of rape and murder involving leaders of Congress to wonder if Rahul Gandhi can be linked with these heinous crimes after he reiterated that he stood by every single word he said against RSS in reference to the killing of Mahatma Gandhi.

A pinch of soil and blood-stained blades of grass from the place where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 sold for 10,000 pounds at an auction in London today that also saw many other Gandhi memorabilia going under the hammer including his iconic round-rimmed glasses that fetched more than twice the estimated price. While the glasses sold fo...

Mahatma Gandhi's descendants have expressed regret over the forthcoming auction of a "clump of soil with drops of the Mahatma's blood collected from the site of his assassination" by the British auction house Mullock's. "The auctioning of the clump of soil with a few claimed drops of Mahatma Gandhi's blood sounds reprehensible...morbid. But if the...

Mahatma Gandhi's spectacles have been missing from the Sevagram Ashram in Wardha since November, officials revealed on Monday. The state government has ordered a probe into the incident.Ashram president MM Gadkari said its employees were asked to keep silent about the missing glasses."We had made a list of the belongings of Gandhiji that were place...

The hapless grandchildren of Batak Mian, who saved the life of Mahatma Gandhi in 1917 by alerting him not to drink a glass of poisoned milk in Bihar, have got a helping hand from Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

A pair of gold-plated glasses worn byMahatma Gandhi has sold in Britain for 260,000 pounds (about 288,000 euros, $340,000), the auction house said.

A "rare and important" pair of iconic glasses worn by Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi look set to sell for tens of thousands of pounds after a British auction house put them up for sale on Monday.

A pair of gold-plated spectacles believed to have been worn by Mahatma Gandhi and presented as a gift in the 1900s have emerged on the UK auction circuit, estimated to fetch between 10,000 pounds and 15,000 pounds.

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi has been vandalised at Kannur in Kerala at about 7 am on Thursday. An unidentified person has broken the glasses and garland on the statue. Local people claim they saw the man targeting the statue. Police have started an investigation

BJP today raked up past cases of rape and murder involving leaders of Congress to wonder if Rahul Gandhi can be linked with these heinous crimes after he reiterated that he stood by every single word he said against RSS in reference to the killing of Mahatma Gandhi.

A pinch of soil and blood-stained blades of grass from the place where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 sold for 10,000 pounds at an auction in London today that also saw many other Gandhi memorabilia going under the hammer including his iconic round-rimmed glasses that fetched more than twice the estimated price. While the glasses sold fo...

Mahatma Gandhi's descendants have expressed regret over the forthcoming auction of a "clump of soil with drops of the Mahatma's blood collected from the site of his assassination" by the British auction house Mullock's. "The auctioning of the clump of soil with a few claimed drops of Mahatma Gandhi's blood sounds reprehensible...morbid. But if the...

Mahatma Gandhi's spectacles have been missing from the Sevagram Ashram in Wardha since November, officials revealed on Monday. The state government has ordered a probe into the incident.Ashram president MM Gadkari said its employees were asked to keep silent about the missing glasses."We had made a list of the belongings of Gandhiji that were place...

The hapless grandchildren of Batak Mian, who saved the life of Mahatma Gandhi in 1917 by alerting him not to drink a glass of poisoned milk in Bihar, have got a helping hand from Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.