" I have no copyright in my portraits "said mahatma gandhi in 1931
Mahatma wrote to M.Rebello & Son responding to a request for
permission to use his image on roofing tiles. Mahatma Gandhi’s reply
written on 31 May, 1931 says: “I have your letter of 22nd instant. I
have no copyright in my portraits but I am unable to give the consent
you require.” According to his grandson,Gopalkrishna Gandhi , this reply
showed Mahatma’s general attitude to advertisements and advertising!
present day politicians are putting up own statues in some states,at state expense !!!!!!
present day politicians are putting up own statues in some states,at state expense !!!!!!
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MAHATMA GANDHI SAID HE HAS NO COPYRIGHTS OVER HIS PHOTOS
SEE BELOW :- SINCE GANDHI IS NO MORE, AS ALSO HIS LATE PHOTOGRAPHER DINODIA ;SOME OTHERS ARE SAYING THEY "MANAGE"COPY RIGHT OVER HIS PHOTOS
No body has the right to manage Mahatama Gandhi's photos ..HE IS THE FATHER OF INDIAN NATION
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German collector bringing the Mahatma Gandhi to life
Published: Wednesday, Apr 4, 2012, 8:00 IST | Updated: Tuesday, Apr 3, 2012, 23:34 IST
By DNA Correspondent | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA
By DNA Correspondent | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA
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Ruhe has been accused by many of acquiring photographs and other memorabilia from India and Gandhi’s family over the past several years in an ‘unfair’ manner. However, the portal has now gone live wherein photographs, cartoons, audio and video recordings etc can be bought online
But the Ahmedabad team is not perturbed with Ruhe’s portal. It’s a commercial venture, they say, and not necessarily authentic
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Front page of The Bombay Chronicle, May 6, 1944[released from prison at pune Aga khan palace]
The Aga Khan Palace in Pune, Maharashtra, India, where Mahatma Gandhi and others were interned between August 1942 and May 1944
Mahatma Gandhi and others walking at Juhu Beach ; Mumbai ; May 1944
Mahatma Gandhi ; sitting in a chair Juhu Beach ; Mumbai ; with a woman ; May 1944
Mahatma Gandhi and others walking at Juhu Beach ; Mumbai ; May 1944
walking on juhu beach
Mahatma Gandhi in the residence of his host ; Sumati Morarjee Juhu Beach ; Mumbai ; May 1944
Sumati Morarjee and Mahatma Gandhi greeting people at Juhu Beach ; Mumbai ; May 1944
Mahatma Gandhi distributing mangoes to children after prayer at Juhu Beach, Bombay, May/June 1944. Left: Gandhi's hostess, Sumati Morarjee. | |
Mahatma Gandhi ; distributing fruits to children at Juhu Beach ; Mumbai ; May 1944
Mahatma Gandhi greeting people at Juhu Beach ; Mumbai ; May 1944 ; India
Mahatma Gandhi ; distributing fruits to children at Juhu Beach ; Mumbai ; May 1944
Mahatma Gandhi at a public meeting ; 1944
Mahatma Gandhi ; walking with Sushila Nayar Juhu Beach ; Mumbai ; May 1944
Mahatma Gandhi distributing fruits to children ; June 1944
An envelope addressed to Mahatma Gandhi ; 1944 ;
Mahatma Gandhi ; Sushila Nayar ; Abha Gandhi and others walking ; 1944 ; India
Mahatma Gandhi ; supported by two people Juhu Beach ; Mumbai ; May 1944 ; India
Mahatma Gandhi and others walking Juhu Beach ; Mumbai ; May 1944 ; Manu Gandhi ; Sushila Nayar
Mahatma Gandhi resting outside ; People sitting next to him on the ground ; 1944
Mahatma Gandhi with his son Devdas at Juhu Beach, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, May 1944
Mahatma Gandhi with his son Devdas at Juhu Beach, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, May 1944
Mahatma Gandhi with his son Devdas at Juhu Beach, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, May 1944
Mahatma Gandhi during prayer at Juhu Beach, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, May 1944
Mahatma Gandhi during evening walk at Juhu Beach, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, May 1944
Mahatma Gandhi during evening walk at Juhu Beach, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, May 1944 -
Mahatma Gandhi during prayer at Juhu Beach, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, May 1944
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Mahatma Gandhi and his associates walking at "Palm Bun", Juhu Beach, Bombay, May/June 1944.
" I have no copyright in my portraits "said mahatma gandhi in 1931
Mahatma wrote to M.Rebello & Son responding to a request for
permission to use his image on roofing tiles. Mahatma Gandhi’s reply
written on 31 May, 1931 says: “I have your letter of 22nd instant. I
have no copyright in my portraits but I am unable to give the consent
you require.” According to his grandson,Gopalkrishna Gandhi , this reply
showed Mahatma’s general attitude to advertisements and advertising!
present day politicians are putting up own statues in some states,at state expense !!!!!!
present day politicians are putting up own statues in some states,at state expense !!!!!!
Gandhi:-Father of the Nation himself thought of cinema as
'often bad' and 'sinful'.
MUMBAI:
It is one of the greatest ironies. Cinema has today served Gandhianism
in a new garb of Gandhigiri and made the Mahatma relevant to today's
generation through 'Lage Raho, Munna Bhai'.
In
1982, it also portrayed him in the vastly popular Richard Attenborough
direction 'Gandhi'. However, Father of the Nation himself thought of
cinema as 'often bad' and 'sinful'.
Gandhi
reserved extreme scepticism for motion pictures. The Indian
Cinematograph Committee's questionnaire requesting his views on the
state of Indian cinema famously earned his brutally frank opinion:
"Cinema is a sinful technology".
A cursory flip through books showcasing Indian cinematic history reveals the extent of the Mahatma's disdain for the bioscope.
His
newspaper editorials and letters to film associations equated cinema
with evils like gambling, sutta, horse racing and so on. In his paper,
'Harijan', he wrote, "If I began to organise picketing in respect of
them (the evil of cinema), I should lose my caste, my Mahatmaship."
Gautam
Kaul's book 'Cinema and The Indian Freedom Struggle' carries excerpts
from the Mahatma's reply to the Indian Cinematograph Committee, dated
November 12, 1927. It began with characteristic humility: "I should be
unfit to answer your questionnaire as I have never been to a cinema."
Gandhi then proceeded to stronger views: "But even to an outsider, the
evil that it (cinema) has done and it is doing is patent. The good, if
it has done at all, remains to be proved."
In
1938, when Indian cinema celebrated its silver jubilee, Gandhi was
requested to write a message for the official souvenir. His secretary
replied uncharitably: "As a rule, Gandhi gives messages only on rare
occasions and this is only for a cause, whose virtue is ever undoubtful.
As
for the cinema industry, he has least interest in it and one may not
expect a word of appreciation from him." The film fraternity didn't take
Gandhi's condemnations lying down. Film-maker Khwaja Ahmed Abbas wrote
an open letter to the Mahatma in 'Filmindia' in October 1939.
"In
two of your recent statements, I have been surprised and pained to find
cinema mentioned slightly in contemptuous terms," wrote Abbas. "In a
recent statement, you include cinema among evils like gambling, sutta,
horse racing, which you leave alone for fear of losing caste.
If
these statements had come from any other person, it was not necessary
to be worried about them. My father never sees films and regards them as
a vice imported from the West," the letter read. "But your case is
different and even the slightest of your opinion carries much weight
with millions of people. I have no doubt that a large number of
conservative and orthodox persons in the country will be confirmed in
their hostile attitude towards the cinema after reading your statement."
The
letter ended with an impassioned plea: "Give us this little toy of
ours, the cinema, which is not so useless as it looks, a little of your
attention and bless it with a smile of tolerance."
Fortunately,
for Indian cinema, not all leaders shared Gandhi's distaste. Sarojini
Naidu, in an interview with Baburao Patel, editor of 'Filmindia', said,
"Cinema can do to a whole people what a loving and devoted wife can do
to an erring husband."
Asked
if films were not a cause for despair for her as they were for Gandhi,
she replied, "They are my love and hope. You better leave the Mahatma
alone to his own ways.
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