Written by Neha Banka |Kolkata |Updated: October 2, 2019 11:03:51 pm
Keeping alive Hyderi Manzil, Gandhi’s last residence in Kolkata
In the last week of September, renovations at Hyderi Manzil were feverishly ongoing for the museum to be ready in time for Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary commemorations on October 2.
XHyderi Manzil undergoing renovations for the opening of the new museum in Kolkata. (Express photo by Neha Banka)
Finding Hyderi Manzil in today’s Kolkata is not easy. Few know of its name and even fewer know of its significance. To search for Hyderi Manzil, a relatively small one-storey building painted white in the Beliaghata neighbourhood of the city, one would have to invoke the name of the most well-known of its many residents—Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Hyderi Manzil, christened ‘Gandhi Bhawan’ by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in 2018, is the last known address where Gandhi lived during his last visit to the city before his death in 1948.
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