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The subway construction was fenced off. Behind the tin fences there were shanty dwellings put up to house those who worked on the tracks.
The sign at the event being elaborately prepared in the hotel called it the “Tilak and Godh Ceremony.”
Two well-dressed men on the way to the event in the hotel told me that “500 guests” were expected to attend the dinner which was paid for “by the groom’s side.”
From the outside we could see in the front garden a sculpture of the Mahatma with a little girl and a little boy, who held a dove in his hand, standing on either side of Gandhi.
All these are changing, our hopeful tour guide said as he pointed to the flower shop near our hotel.
Gandhi, in contrast, spent his 144 days in Independent Delhi in a modest house owned by a friend, the philanthropist industrialist Birla. The Mahatma (Great Soul) was killed here on his nightly walk on January 30, 1948. People affectionately refer to the place as Gandhi Smeriti (Remembrance). The authorities call it Gandhi Museum. On this day pompous guards were preventing us from entering the museum.
Today the Shudras are said to constitute 58% of the Hindus. They do all the “cleaning works,” our tour guide said. “In the beginning they were not considered inferior, but gradually the members of other castes started to feel superior. They would not do any cleaning work. The Shurdas became untouchable because they dealt with dirt.”
Still the third carpet showcased in ornate calligraphy the words Ali Mulana, the name of the Shiite first Imam.
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