Exhibition “Dandi Yatra” inaugurated

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New Delhi : Exhibition “Dandi Yatra” organized by the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, was inaugurated on December 29, 2018, in the National Capital by Dr Y P Anand, a Senior Gandhian and former Director, National Gandhi Museum, New Delhi. It was also attended by Dipankar Gyan, Director, Gandhi Smriti & Darshan Samiti, and S C Barma, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture, among other dignitaries.

This exhibition is part of  the celebrations of the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Father of the Nation, to propagate his message of peace. It showcases the unseen drawings of artist Chhaganlal Jadav and also the master works of NGMA’s collection of artists like Nandlal Bose, Upendra Maharathi, and Ram Kinkar Baij, etc.

Speaking at the event, Adwaita Gadanayak, Director General, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) Delhi, said that the exhibition showcases historical drawings of the journey of the Salt March from Sabarmati Satyagraha Ashram, Kochrab, to Dandi, a small coastal village in Gujarat. The journey, covering 240 miles, took 12 night halts and was witness to the breaking of the British law for salt. At that time, a veritable ocean of people had been drawn to this march making it one of the largest mass movements of the world.

An unsung Satyagrahi and artist Chhaganlal Jadav, in his tiny drawing book, had captured some known/unknown faces from amongst the participants of this epic journey towards Swaraj, he said. These landmark drawings that are part of our living history are presently a part of the personal collection of the Dr Rizwan Qadri from Ahmadabad, who brought these drawings to light and shared them with NGMA for purpose of showcasing them for the first time, through the exhibition, he added.

The exhibition will be open for public from December 30, 2018, onwards from 11 am to 6.30 pm on all working days expect for Mondays and National Holidays, according to a PIB release.