Gandhi's integrity I

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At the end of February, the Centre for Consumer Education in Kerala, India, won a high court injunction suspending the sales of a luxury Montblanc pen bearing the image and name of the “father of the nation”, Mohandas Gandhi.
Montblanc apologised unconditionally for the limited-edition £16,000 pen, which had been approved by Gandhi’s great-grandson Tushar Gandhi. He protested: “People are being deprived of the right to commemorate Gandhi and that’s a very un-Gandhian thing to do.”
Tushar Gandhi’s charitable foundation receives a payment for each pen sold.