Kirti Mandir

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Birth place of Mahatma Gandhi© Wikimedia Commons

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Kirti Mandir© Snehrashmi (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Kirti Mandir, Vadadora (Baroda) - India© Emmanuel DYAN from Paris, France (CC BY 2.0)

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Kirti Mandir, Vadadora (Baroda) - India© Emmanuel DYAN from Paris, France (CC BY 2.0)

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The house - Kirti Mandir© Rohit Agarwal (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Birth place of Mahatma Gandhi© Wikimedia Commons

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The house where Gandhi was born in 1869, and the small museum built beside it for him and Kasturba. Inside are objects he used, life-size portraits of the two of them, old photographs and a library of his writing and of books about his thinking. The ancestral home itself is entered through the museum — narrow rooms, steep stairs, and a marked spot on the floor. It is modest by design, and the contrast with the Statue of Unity three hours away is worth sitting with. World leaders have made the trip; most visitors need about half an hour.