The Madurai-based Gandhi Memorial Museum’s Secretary M P Gurusamy interacts with Senior Correspondent G Saravana Muthu
Q. Kindly throw light on this facility’s background.
A. In the wake of Bapu’s demise, a committee was instituted with a view to maintain existing ashrams and other centres besides constructing museums at places associated with events in his life. Madurai was selected for the Museum as it was here that the Mahatma adopted the ‘loincloth’ to identify himself with the poor. Besides, he visited the Sri Meenakshi-Sundareswarar Temple along with dalits in 1946.