{"id":4515,"date":"2004-09-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/05\/2004-09-05-mahatma-gandhi-inspires-new-canadian-museum\/"},"modified":"2004-09-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-05T12:00:00","slug":"2004-09-05-mahatma-gandhi-inspires-new-canadian-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/05\/2004-09-05-mahatma-gandhi-inspires-new-canadian-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahatma Gandhi Inspires New Canadian Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/sify.com\/news\/fullstory.php?id=13554627\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>WINNIPEG, CANADA, August 29, 2004: Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s long walk through history has paused in an unlikely spot, the central Canadian prairie city of Winnipeg. A life-size statue of the &#8220;father of the nation&#8221; complete with his signature walking cane, has arrived in central Canada to become the showpiece of a new Museum for Human Rights. The 500-kilo bronze statue created by Ram Vanji Sutar, whose sculptures of Gandhi are displayed around the world, was presented by the Indian government and is the museum&#8217;s first exhibit. &#8220;Gandhi is first on the list of the greatest people involved in the human rights movement in the past century,&#8221; said Naranjan Dhalla, who helped organize the exhibit. His likeness was unveiled Friday and put on display at a downtown Winnipeg park, where it will remain until the museum opens nearby in four years. &#8220;It is a great tribute not only to Mahatma Gandhi, but also to the whole of Indian culture, which preaches tolerance, truthfulness and non-violence,&#8221; said Pratap Singh, spokesman for India&#8217;s high commissioner to Canada. &#8220;He embodies all of these values, and so having a place for him in a museum of human rights in a multicultural and multiracial society like Canada is a great honor.&#8221; Singh said his country has been trying to eradicate these problems since establishing a human rights commission in 1993. He also charged that most countries still struggle with human rights issues.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceWINNIPEG, CANADA, August 29, 2004: Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s long walk through history has paused in an unlikely spot, the central Canadian,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}