Photo: Gandhi's Ashes Scattered Into Arabian Sea

Email to a Friend << Back to Full Story


Gandhi's great-granddaughter Neelam Parikh, 75, empties an urn containing the peace leader's ashes into the Arabian Sea in Mumbai (Bombay), India, on January 30, 2008.

The country remembered the 60th anniversary of Gandhi's assassination with his family scattering his remaining ashes into the sea and at the sacred confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers.

Photograph by Rajesh Nirgude/AP

MOST VIEWED NEWS

PICTURES: 2012 Doomsday Myths Debunked

2012: Six End-of-the-World Myths Debunked

APOCALYPSE PICTURES: 10 Failed Doomsday Prophecies
NEWS FEEDS    After installing a news reader, click on this icon to download National Geographic News's XML/RSS feed. After installing a news reader, click on this icon to download National Geographic News's XML/RSS feed.

Get our news delivered directly to your desktop—free.
How to Use XML or RSS

ADVERTISEMENT

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S PHOTO OF THE DAY

Today's National Geographic Photo of the Day

• Today's Photo

• Download as Wallpaper

50 Drives of a Lifetime

National Geographic Traveler has scoured the globe for the world's most beautiful, interesting, and off-beat road trips. Dive in to get drive directions, quizzes, photos, and more.