http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India_may_bid_for_Mahatmas_memorabilia/articleshow/4229958.cms
and then this,,,
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mallya-buys-Gandhis-items-for-18-million-/articleshow/4231248.cms
I mean, when this news first broke out, I thought Oh Crap!!!! Gandhi himself would have cared least about his personal belongings and we really cared even less.. Why else would these have fallen into the hands of a foreigner in the first place???
Then comes the entire melodrama... an american more conceerned about our healthcare spend when his country sucks blood out of evrything else... An indian claiming he would go great lengths to protect the great guardians legacy and an governement that is more than glad to part with hard-earned tax payers money to save a watch, bowl,plate and what not of a great visionary who always rose above the materialistic...
And then comes the ultimate save, an Indian hero selling booze to this world and lavishing more money on foreginers to do modelling for his calendar in the skimpiest of clothes and reducing to lower air-fares, the king of materialism bidding the highest to save the material remains of a great philosopher..
Is everyone else oblivious to the irony????
