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A collector's item

Staff Reporter

The cover of the `Discovery' journal.

HYDERABAD: `Lage Raho Munnabhai' has nothing to do with the `Gandhigiri' of this magazine. For Hyderabad-based scientific monthly journal `Discovery', Mahatma Gandhi has been a permanent fixture for the past several years.

Chief Editor of `Discovery' D. Srinivas Reddy has been coming out with a special issue on the Mahatma for the last five years on every Gandhi Jayanti day on October 2. This year, Mr. Reddy has gone one step ahead and is distributing a rare poster of the Mahatma. Five lakh copies, all free of cost, are ready in post offices across the country for distribution to educational institutions, Government offices and anyone who is interested.

The poster is based on Gandhiji's scientific vision for the country and shows the Father of the Nation peering into a microscope. The poster was released by veteran Gandhian Nirmala Deshpande at Raj Ghat in New Delhi on Monday. The magazine, meanwhile, is a collector's issue. With several rare photographs of the Mahatma, anecdotes, small incidents in his life that were not that well known and trivia from his South African phase, comprise the content.

What is, however, sure to interest readers more is a 10-day countdown to January 30, the day the Mahatma was assassinated.

Clubbed with photographs, the countdown takes the reader through what Gandhiji did in his last days. A critical piece on the `Curious and continuous omission' of Mahatma Gandhi from the list of Nobel Peace prize winners is also a highlight.

"It is based on Gandhiji's ideology that we are distributing five lakh posters free of cost. We want more of the younger generation to know our Father of the Nation closely. That's why we have been doing this for the past several years," says Mr. Reddy. Time to say `Lage Raho Reddybhai'?

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