Two hundred family  friends attended the Hindu ceremony, conducted by the South African navy, in which the ashes were sprinkled on to the Indian Ocean. Hindu custom dictates that ashes are scattered over a body of water after cremation, but Gandhi's ashes, Gandhi being cremated after he was assassinated by in 1948, were instead divided up and distributed to friends and family. It is difficult to work out how many portions of ashes are still in the hands of the recipients. Ela Gandhi, the Indian national hero's sixty-nine year-old granddaughter, attended the ceremony, as well as making a speech, in which she highlighted the fact that intolerance was still rife. She said, "I think one of the important messages of his death is the intolerance that goes on in this world, the intolerance of people for other people on the basis of religion, on the basis of race, on the basis of ethnicity, of class and of caste and so on". She went on to say that the Indian Ocean was chosen as it linked the two countries "on which he had such a profound influence".
Two hundred family and friends attended the Hindu ceremony, conducted by the South African navy, in which the ashes were sprinkled on to the Indian Ocean. Hindu custom dictates that ashes are scattered over a body of water after cremation, but Gandhi's ashes, Gandhi being cremated after he was assassinated in 1948, were instead divided up and distributed to friends and family. It is difficult to work out how many portions of ashes are still in the hands of the recipients. Ela Gandhi, the Indian national hero's sixty nine year-old granddaughter, attended the ceremony, as well as making a speech, in which she highlighted the fact that intolerance was still rife. She said, "I think one of the important messages of his death is the intolerance that goes on in this world, the intolerance of people for other people on the basis of religion, on the basis of race, on the basis of ethnicity, of class and of caste and so on". She went on to say that the Indian Ocean was chosen as it linked the two countries "on which he had such a profound influence".
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