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October 2nd, Gandhiji's Birthday
Posted by Shuva Brata Deb (Bangalore, India) on 2 October 2006 in People & Portrait.
Today is Mahatma Gandhi's birthday--the Father of the Nation occupies a place in almost all Indian's currency notes, perhaps reminding the users of this piece of paper not to make it as the reason of violence(which unfortunately is---Money is the root of violence all over the world)
What is see here is a Rs. 500 Indian currency, backlit so that you can see the water mark (the left face) and also the famous Dandi March which is printed on the other side.
Wikipedia link: Life of Mahatma Gandhi
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Jason Kravitz from Brussels, Belgium
Wow - Jide and Ghandi have the same birthday (see Suby's shutterchance shot today).
2 Oct 2006 9:32am
Suby and Sinem from Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
He walks with the greats :)
Suby
2 Oct 2006 10:19am
Ryan Yam from Quezon City, Philippines
Hey this is cool, I've never seen Indian currency and nice technique to bring out all the details :) I was just wondering if it's really true but I heard my professor once say that Gandhi was a sexist?
2 Oct 2006 1:16pm
@Ryan Yam: You should try to get a copy of the autobiography of the Mahatma,
The Story of My Experiments with Truth. He does mention about his sexual life--but he became a chaste while still married at the age of 36. But there are more important things that I guess your professor must have told you about him. Haven't he?
Michael Zhang from New York City, United States
Which lens did you use for this? You captured the currency in awesome detail and color.
2 Oct 2006 1:28pm
Ashish Sidapara from Singapore, Singapore
Thats a lovely shot, the details are superb!!
2 Oct 2006 2:57pm
Samarth from London, United Kingdom
Lovel, original shot...most impressed....great way to pay tribute to him..
2 Oct 2006 3:23pm
Sidney from Manila, Philippines
He was indeed a GREAT man!
Nice effect on this bank note.
2 Oct 2006 9:22pm
Srinivas Koduri from Visakhapatnam, India
Its intresting that 2 holidays came on the sameday and how contrasting they were too. one is about a person who believes in non-violence. The other one is about a goddess durga who kill evil violently. On a day when non-violence should be praticed people were killing chicken and lambs as offerings to the godess durga.
3 Oct 2006 2:10am
Canon EOS REBEL XT
1/125 second
F/4.5
ISO 100
28 mm