Maya Jasanoff on the changes that Narendra Modi has in store for Gandhi’s ashram and whether they will drain the Mahatma’s legacy of its political substance.
Ahmedabad is Modi’s power base: he settled there in his late teens and rose through the ranks of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a fascist-inspired paramilitary organization, and its political ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party , both dedicated to Hindu nationalism, or Hindutva. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat in 2002, when anti-Muslim pogroms tore across the region, killing upward of a thousand people. But, before Ahmedabad was Modi’s headquarters, it was Mahatma Gandhi ’s.
Sarabhai described another proposal: “From the river, this water fountain comes up which has Gandhi’s head in it,” traced by lasers. A hologram “can, of course, dazzle a visitor because of the technology,” Sarabhai went on. The government has enthusiastically embraced such gimmicks in places like the site of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and the Prime Ministers’ Museum, in Delhi. “But we don’t want technology to dazzle,” he said.
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