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This is a photo of an exhibit (statues), in the Sabarmati Ashram museum, that recreates the famous Salt March, an overwhelmingly popular act of non-violent civil disobedience in colonial India initiated by Mahatma Gandhi.
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Taken at the Sabarmati Ashram-Ahmedabad,India.
Ahmedabad - Gujarat - India
Gandhi Ashram museum
Sabarmati Ashram (also known as Gandhi Ashram, Harijan Ashram, or Satyagraha Ashram) is located in the Sabarmati suburb of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, adjoining the Ashram Road, on the banks of the River Sabarmati, four miles from the town hall. This was one of the residences of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, generally called Mahatma Gandhi, who lived there for about twelve years along with his wife, Kasturba Gandhi.
It was from his base here that Gandhi led the Dandi march also known as the Salt Satyagraha on 12 March 1930. In recognition of the significant influence that this march had on the Indian independence movement the Indian government has established the ashram as a national monument.- Alok Kumar verma
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabarmati_Ashram
Ahmedabad is the largest city and former capital of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. With a population of more than 6.3 million and an extended population of 7.2 million, it is the sixth largest city and seventh largest metropolitan area of India. Ahmedabad is located on the banks of the Sabarmati River, 30 km from the state capital Gandhinagar.
Ahmedabad has emerged as an important economic and industrial hub in India. It is the second largest producer of cotton in India, and its stock exchange is the country's second oldest. The effects of liberalisation of the Indian economy have energized the city's economy towards tertiary sector activities like commerce, communication and construction.
Ahmedabad - Gujarat - India
Gandhi Ashram museum
Sabarmati Ashram (also known as Gandhi Ashram, Harijan Ashram, or Satyagraha Ashram) is located in the Sabarmati suburb of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, adjoining the Ashram Road, on the banks of the River Sabarmati, four miles from the town hall. This was one of the residences of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, generally called Mahatma Gandhi, who lived there for about twelve years along with his wife, Kasturba Gandhi.
It was from his base here that Gandhi led the Dandi march also known as the Salt Satyagraha on 12 March 1930. In recognition of the significant influence that this march had on the Indian independence movement the Indian government has established the ashram as a national monument.- Alok Kumar verma
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabarmati_Ashram
Ahmedabad is the largest city and former capital of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. With a population of more than 6.3 million and an extended population of 7.2 million, it is the sixth largest city and seventh largest metropolitan area of India. Ahmedabad is located on the banks of the Sabarmati River, 30 km from the state capital Gandhinagar.
Ahmedabad has emerged as an important economic and industrial hub in India. It is the second largest producer of cotton in India, and its stock exchange is the country's second oldest. The effects of liberalisation of the Indian economy have energized the city's economy towards tertiary sector activities like commerce, communication and construction.
I traveled to India for the first time to present a keynote at the 3rd Global Conference on Emerging Trends for Business Librarianship, November 21-22, 2017 at the Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad, India. I also attended the Asian business librarian meeting on Monday the 20th. Sunday the 19th of November we did some sightseeing and we visited the Mahatma Gandhi Ashram at Sabarmati. The Ashram was Gandhi's home for numerous years from 1915 through the early 1930s. Pictures from Sunday November 19, 2017.
Ahmedabad - Gujarat - India
Gandhi Ashram museum
Sabarmati Ashram (also known as Gandhi Ashram, Harijan Ashram, or Satyagraha Ashram) is located in the Sabarmati suburb of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, adjoining the Ashram Road, on the banks of the River Sabarmati, four miles from the town hall. This was one of the residences of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, generally called Mahatma Gandhi, who lived there for about twelve years along with his wife, Kasturba Gandhi.
It was from his base here that Gandhi led the Dandi march also known as the Salt Satyagraha on 12 March 1930. In recognition of the significant influence that this march had on the Indian independence movement the Indian government has established the ashram as a national monument.- Alok Kumar verma
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabarmati_Ashram
Ahmedabad is the largest city and former capital of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. With a population of more than 6.3 million and an extended population of 7.2 million, it is the sixth largest city and seventh largest metropolitan area of India. Ahmedabad is located on the banks of the Sabarmati River, 30 km from the state capital Gandhinagar.
Ahmedabad has emerged as an important economic and industrial hub in India. It is the second largest producer of cotton in India, and its stock exchange is the country's second oldest. The effects of liberalisation of the Indian economy have energized the city's economy towards tertiary sector activities like commerce, communication and construction.
Ahmedabad - Gujarat - India
Gandhi Ashram museum
Sabarmati Ashram (also known as Gandhi Ashram, Harijan Ashram, or Satyagraha Ashram) is located in the Sabarmati suburb of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, adjoining the Ashram Road, on the banks of the River Sabarmati, four miles from the town hall. This was one of the residences of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, generally called Mahatma Gandhi, who lived there for about twelve years along with his wife, Kasturba Gandhi.
It was from his base here that Gandhi led the Dandi march also known as the Salt Satyagraha on 12 March 1930. In recognition of the significant influence that this march had on the Indian independence movement the Indian government has established the ashram as a national monument.- Alok Kumar verma
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabarmati_Ashram
Ahmedabad is the largest city and former capital of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. With a population of more than 6.3 million and an extended population of 7.2 million, it is the sixth largest city and seventh largest metropolitan area of India. Ahmedabad is located on the banks of the Sabarmati River, 30 km from the state capital Gandhinagar.
Ahmedabad has emerged as an important economic and industrial hub in India. It is the second largest producer of cotton in India, and its stock exchange is the country's second oldest. The effects of liberalisation of the Indian economy have energized the city's economy towards tertiary sector activities like commerce, communication and construction.
Correa's first public building - one of his first buildings at all actually - is a knockout. A prototypical mat building in the "repeating module" genre, it anticipates the Venice Hospital by several years and is ahead even of the Delft Montessori School. I'm not erudite enough to really offer a coherent chronology of this formal strategy, so I won't go right out and say that Correa is the first to viably demonstrate the idea in a built project, but certainly he's out ahead of the pack.
Part of the excitement surrounding mat buildings was that their uncompromising horizontality gave them an inherent modesty; they were a resistance strategy against the monumentalizing tendency within modernism. As such, it's an appropriate treatment for a museum devoted to Gandhi, the 20th century's humblest icon, a man who knew the power his own person and reputation had over millions and yet refused the laurels and trappings of worldly power. The risk in building a museum to honor his legacy is that the building itself would mythologize the man, make him larger than life - - especially since the chosen site was that of the Sabarmati Ashram, a significant place in Gandhi's life story. It's a place of historical importance - but Correa had to avoid adding something that would make it into holy ground, a shrine for a cult of personality.
The choice of an abstracted "village" as the formal theme, then, is significant in several ways. For one, a village is not a monument - it's really the opposite, the everyday stuff and fabric, which might hypothetically surround or contrast with a monument, but by its very nature can't be one itself.
As well, to Gandhi, the village was the basis of Indian society - indeed, he imagined it as the essential unit of post-Independence political organization. The village is the collective enterprise of everyday Indians, not gods or heroes. If Correa's abstracted village is considerably more static and repetitious than any actual village, it remains loose and informal by virtue of the surprises within the plan, the gaps, the open spaces, the wall versus the absence of wall. As in Corbu's house for Sarabhai, the repetition of the structural system provides a fabric-like texture into which the rest of life can be woven. The Sarabhais, significantly, were textile industrialists and collectors - and I don't think I have to remind you about Gandhi and weaving.
This is a conscious attempt to use modernity as an antidote against provincialism, even while using local reference as an antidote against totalizing abstraction. In other words, it's a textbook case of what Frampton would later identify as critical regionalism, here at its best and least cloying. It's funny, then, that Kahn would use virtually the same formal theme, at virtually the same time in his Trenton Jewish Community Center (1954-1959). I don't know what Kahn would have made of the program for this building, but certainly he would not have lent it this kind of modesty.
A final note: the mat building concept, as I've said before, found fertile soil in India, where the climate allows (or really invites) an openness to the courtyards, the essential agent of light and variety in all mat schemes. Ahmedabad is home, not only to this building, but also to the excellent National Design Institute building (Gautam & Gira Sarabhai, 1961) - a stimulating and refreshing succession of rooms, spaces, courts, sunken exhibition gardens, etc. The same building, built to the thermal needs of a temperate climate, would become a generic Institutional Lump akin to the high schools most of us in the US went to. But it's not just that the climate knocks out the stifling walls - it's a really well-designed building that I wish I could share with you here. The NID, unfortunately does not permit photos, although they are very accommodating of visitors otherwise, and have a very friendly and well-informed staff, for which I'm grateful. The images I can find on the web don't really convey the pleasantness of moving through the place, and make it look rather more like a generic 1960s building from anywhere. But trust me! Another good comparison would, of course, be Doshi's IIM Campus in Bangalore (photos here).
Simplicity in design, simplicity in ideals and a simple man who did great things.
Might be the most recognised silhouette in all of India (World?). Seen in the Sabarmati Ashram, Gujarat. Its a glass fixture installed there. I saw it & I had to shoot it. I look at it and feel becalmed, serene. Its just beautiful.
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Sabarmati Ashram was originally established at the Kocharab Bungalow of Jivanlal Desai on 25 May 1915. The Ashram was then shifted on 17 June 1917 to a piece of open land on the banks of the river Sabarmati.
Sabarmati Ashram (also known as Gandhi Ashram) is located in the Ahmedabad suburb of Sabarmati adjoining to famous Ashram Road, at the bank of River Sabarmati, 4 miles away from the city Town Hall. This was one of the residences of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
This was taken at Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad which was the house of MK Gandhi. I got goose bumps when I saw this room!!! Unbelieveable, a man can sit in this room and his words reached every soul across the nation during a time when there was no television,no phones and most of the people were illiterates. He lives forever....
Sabarmati Ashram (also known as Gandhi Ashram, Harijan Ashram, or Satyagraha Ashram) is located in the Sabarmati suburb of Ahmedabad adjoining to famous Ashram Road, at the bank of River Sabarmati, 4 miles from the town hall. This was one of the residences of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi spent approximately 12 years of his life here.
This ashram is now a national monument established by the Government of India due to its significance for the Indian independence movement in the form of the Dandi March in 1930.
The ashram now has a museum, Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalay. In 1963 the museum building was erected (designed by architect Charles Correa), and memorial activities were then started here. One of the important activities undertaken is the establishment of a Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalay. Initially started in 'Hriday Kunj,' Gandhi's own cottage in the Ashram, the Sangrahalaya has now shifted to its own well-designed and well-furnished building which was inaugurated by Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, on 10 May 1963.
Sabarmati Ashram (also known as Gandhi Ashram, Harijan Ashram, or Satyagraha Ashram) is located in the Sabarmati suburb of Ahmedabad adjoining to famous Ashram Road, at the bank of River Sabarmati, 4 miles from the town hall. This was one of the residences of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi spent approximately 12 years of his life here.
This ashram is now a national monument established by the Government of India due to its significance for the Indian independence movement in the form of the Dandi March in 1930.
Ambassador Roemer visited Gujarat Vidyapith, founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1920 and operated as a university since 1963. Gujarat Vidyapith is committed to the Gandhian values of truth and non-violence. During his visit, the Ambassador joined Gandhian scholars in prayer.
sabarmati ashram in the ahmedabad city located in vadaj area. Whereas you make a visit to Ahmedabad city, a visit to the present Gandhi Ashram is a must.
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I traveled to India for the first time to present a keynote at the 3rd Global Conference on Emerging Trends for Business Librarianship, November 21-22, 2017 at the Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad, India. I also attended the Asian business librarian meeting on Monday the 20th. Sunday the 19th of November we did some sightseeing and we visited the Mahatma Gandhi Ashram at Sabarmati. The Ashram was Gandhi's home for numerous years from 1915 through the early 1930s. Pictures from Sunday November 19, 2017.
Ambassador Timothy Roemer greeted by Gautam Adani, Chairman, Adani Group at Adani House in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
This is a sort of museum in the Ashram originally established by Ghandi - a very peaceful place which put me a little in mind of the British High Commission building my office is designing for Sri Lanka, with it's massive cool concrete roofs and series of pools and open sides.
You can see it from the air here.
The more I learn about him, the more Ghandi is becoming my favourite revolutionary.