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Take the Gandhi tour
India gets this summer a new tourist attraction with the Gandhi tour. Historians, supporters and even immediate family members of the former leader of the Indian people, take tourists to its birthplace in Gujarat and the place where Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi. “It’s nice to see that from the rest of the world there’s still interest in the peaceful ideas of the late Gandhi”, said Varsha Das, director of the National Gandhi Museum near Rajghat. This summer, tourists can visit the birthplace and even drinking tea with a member of the Gandhi family. There are bidsessies and workshops followed on the same spinning wheel that Gandhi used to hand-woven clothing to protest against imported textiles. Another tour operator offers a four-hour excursion along the place where Gandhi was assassinated in 1948. A guide that tells the story of that fatal day in January.
