Monday, January 3, 2011

Coal India to bid again for Gandhi’s S Africa house

Coal India to bid again for Gandhi’s S Africa houseKanpur, January 2India will make another attempt to acquire the house of Mahatma Gandhi in Johannesburg where he had lived a century ago to convert it into a memorial. After learning that the house, where Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi had stayed from 1908 to 1910 as a young lawyer, was on sale, state-owned Coal India Ltd had attempted to buy it in August 2009 but it was snapped up by a French tourism company in an auction.Tribune

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