11 Murti in Delhi, depicting Gandhi’s iconic Dandi March of 1931

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The massive glistening black sculpture depicting Gandhi’s iconic Dandi March of 1931 stands proudly at the heart of the city, easily visible on the Sardar Patel Marg, near Willingdon Crescent. This poetic sculpture by veteran artist and sculptor Devi Prasad Roy Chowdhary shows ten Indian people following Gandhi on his path-breaking civil disobedience protest, hence the name “Gyarah Murti”. Gandhi’s iconic retinue in the sculpture includes a woman with her head covered following close after him; a cluster of three men including a turbaned Sikh visibly of high pedigree, a Hindu scholar with a topi and an emaciated Muslim peasant; a Hindu man wearing a turban as a mark of intellectual distinction, with a religious mark etched on his forehead; an impoverished peasant looking far ahead, bearing