NEW DELHI: Slovenia is the latest country to acquire the statue of peace icon Mahatma Gandhi.
Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) sent Gandhi’s life-size bronze statue (sitting meditation posture) to Slovenia for installation in Slovene Gradec Municipality. The sculptor was Ram Sutar of Delhi.
Bronze busts of Mahatma Gandhi image have already been sent by ICCR to Germany, Australia, Italy, USA, Morocco, Mexico, South Africa, Peru, Seychelles, United Kingdom, Chile, Trinidad & Tobago, Canada, Ivory Coast, Fiji, Myanmar, Ecuador, Tajikistan, Russia, Syria, Brazil, Djibouti, Senegal, Martinique, Colombia, France, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Cyprus, Serbia and Montenegro and Ethiopia.
Gandhi’s life-size or one-and-half life-size bronze statues have been dispatched by ICCR from India to Italy, Canada, USA, South Africa, Switzerland, Australia, Brazil, Kazakhstan, France and New Zealand. Sculptors of statues and busts are Ram Sutar (Delhi), Gautam Pal (Kolkata), Ramesh Bisht, and Ratnabali Kant (Delhi).
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. His life and thought had an enormous impact on the world. Although Gandhi never set foot on America, yet he was on Time magazine covers in 1930, 1931, and 1947; Time Person of the Year in 1930; and was runner-up for Time Person of the Century.
ICCR, headquartered in New Delhi, an autonomous organization of the Government of India with Dr. Karan Singh as President, “is about a communion of cultures, a creative dialogue with other nations”.
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