Slovenia : Slovenia is the latest country to acquire the statue of peace icon Mahatma Gandhi.
Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) has recently sent Gandhi?s life-size bronze statue (sitting meditation posture) to Slovenia for installation in Slovene Gradec Municipality. Sculptor was Ram Sutar of Delhi.
Bronze busts of Mahatma Gandhi image have already been sent by ICCR to Germany, Australia, Italy, USA, Morocco, Mexico, South Africa, Peru, Seychelles, United Kingdom, Chile, Trinidad & Tobago, Canada, Ivory Coast, Fiji, Myanmar, Ecuador, Tajikistan, Russia, Syria, Brazil, Djibouti, Senegal, Martinique, Colombia, France, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Cyprus, Serbia and Montenegro and Ethiopia.
Gandhi?s life-size or one-and-half life-size bronze statues have been dispatched by ICCR from India to Italy, Canada, USA, South Africa, Switzerland, Australia, Brazil, Kazakhstan, France and New Zealand. Sculptors of statues and busts are Ram Sutar (Delhi), Gautam Pal (Kolkata), Ramesh Bisht, and Ratnabali Kant (Delhi).
Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) on Tuesday applauded the countries that already had installed Gandhi?s statue and urged other countries of the world to erect statues to honor the legacy of peace icon Mahatma Gandhi.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. His life and thought had an enormous impact on the world.
Although Gandhi never set foot on America, yet he was on Time magazine covers in 1930, 1931, and 1947; Time Person of the Year in 1930; and was runner-up for Time Person of the Century.
ICCR, headquartered in New Delhi, an autonomous organization of the Government of India with Karan Singh as President, ?is about a communion of cultures, a creative dialogue with other nations?.