Gandhi's personal items up for auction

Mahatma Gandhi’s pocket watch, spectacles, sandals, bowl and plate, and even his "blood test results" will be sold to the highest bidder. They currently belong (legally) to an American documentary filmmaker, and are scheduled to be offered tomorrow as a single lot at an estimated price of $20-30,000.

Some people are outraged, since Gandhi was so famously anti-materialist. The current owner is a self-proclaimed Gandhi fan who has "promised to donate the items to India if it promised to improve health care. Otherwise, he says, he will donate most of the profit to advocates of nonviolence in honor of Ghandi’s work."

Since the seller is currently "working on a documentary about the nonviolence advocate," TYWKIWDBI will view this as a publicity stunt and not get our knickers in a twist about it. We'll file it with the other items in the "irony" category, and move on to other things.

(photo credit here)