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We all have received this joke on this ‘Gandhi Jayanti’ or other, but do you know where the smiling photo of Mahatma Gandhi on our currency notes actually comes from.
It is not a drawn caricature as widely believed, but an actual photograph. It was taken when Gandhiji was standing next to Lord Frederick Pethick-Lawrence at the former Viceroy House which we now know as the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The photo, taken by an unknown photographer in the year 1946, shows Gandhiji smiling at an unknown person. The mirror image of the same is what made it’s way on the Indian currency notes.
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