At the entrance of Gandhi Smriti is a life-like statue of the Mahatma standing on a globe, flanked by a boy and a girl. Sculpted by Shri Ram Sutar, the imagery symbolises Gandhi’s empathy for the under-privileged and the downtrodden. The famous quotation — “My life is my message” — is inscribed on the statue. The museum’s first floor houses the new-age Eternal Gandhi multimedia museum that presents his life through state-of-the-art, innovative installations, and technologically perceptive interfaces. There’s the ‘E-Prison’, a timeline browser that tells the remarkable tale of Gandhiji's journey as a social revolutionary in search of spiritual enlightenment.

MAHATMA GANDHI
The man of honesty
The man of greatness
He is our Mahatma
The father of our nation!
Both in a family
Of cultured background
Grown is a circle.
Of loving parents
Honest, truthful and simple
Of body so frail yet nimble
With heart so big and true
With gifts but given to few.
Made many mistakes.
Realised his faults
Vowed never to commit them again.
Loved his motherland
Brought her freedom
With the weapon of Non - Violence
And not a drop of blood, shed.
Bravely to prison he went
Though so old and bent
Many a blow did he get
Yet never did he fret
With guns and knives, he did not fight
Satyagraha was his eternal might
India's Independence he fought and won
Bloodshed and bitterness there was none.
Adopted penance and fasting
Started the Satyagraha
Gave up foreign goods
And inspired wearing Khadi.
He is our only Gandhi
- ASHU PARASHER, X-A

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