Mani Bhavan

Mahatma Gandhi's residence in Mumbai from 1917 - 1934 is now a small museum. Though not particularly impressive or comprehensive as a museum, the descriptions of many of the (usually photocopied) items within it are striking.

As at Wardha

C.P.

India.

23.7.'39.

Dear friend,

Friends have been urging me to write to you for the sake of humanity. But I have r

esisted their request, because of the feeling that any letter from me would be an impertinence. Something tells me that I must not calculate and that I must make my appeal for whatever it may be worth.

It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent

a war which may reduce humanity to the savage state. Must you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you to be? Will you listen to the appeal of one who has seliberately [sic] shunned the method of war not without considerable success? Any way I anticipate your forgiveness, if I have erred in writing to you.

I remain,

Your sincere friend

M. K. Gandhi

Herr Hitler

Berlin

Germany.

The assassin of the ages came with unholy design and lodged hot lead in the flesh of the man who had known no enemy.

Gandhi had said, "If I am to die by the bullet of a mad man, I must do so smiling. There must be no anger within me. God must be in my heart and on my lips."

He bowed to his assasin and died with the name of God on his lips.

One of these individuals is Charlie Chaplin.