Los Angeles based billionaire James Otis is putting blood report of Mahatma Gandhi for auction within a week. The report contains hemoglobin level, blood color index, and red blood cell count of Mahatma as recorded ten days before his assassination by Nathu Ram Godse.
Otis is expected to use money raised from the auction to fund the non-violent overthrow of the dictatorial regimes of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.
From in.news.yahoo.com:
A yellowed sheet of paper containing the results of a blood test conducted on the Mahatma on January 21, 1948, at Irwin Hospital (now known as the LNJP Hospital) lies in a bank locker owned by Otis, who is a descendant of the man who invented the elevator.
Otis last made headlines in March 2009 when he put up for auction Gandhi’s iconic spectacles and Zenith pocket watch dating back to 1910, for which liquor baron Vijay Mallya coughed up $ 1.8 million ( Rs 9.3 crore at rates prevailing last year).
With the money Otis raises from the present auction, he says he will fund the non-violent overthrow of the dictatorial regimes of El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
The announcement by the maverick art collector and documentary filmmaker was met with predictable anger by the more vocal descendants of the Mahatma.
Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, vicechairperson of the Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti and Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust, says, “The blood report is a personal document. I really don’t know how to react to this. Otis says he is very wealthy. If so, why doesn’t he use his own money to fund non- violent struggles, instead of resorting to such auctions?” The place for the blood reports, says Bhattacharjee, is a museum and not an auction. But the Mahatma’s great-grandson, Tushar Gandhi, says he couldn’t be bothered about the auction.
Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, vicechairperson of the Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti and Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust, said Otis is expected to keep auctioning valuable items belonging to Mahatma Gandhi.
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