The use of memory as a political tool to preserve sanity and not forget has been the subject of much debate — and some concern too — in Germany. At the Gandhi Smriti, where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, you experience the opposite of remembering. The name of the assassin and the ideas that drove him to murder Gandhi find no mention at the memorial. At Gandhi Smriti, the site where Gandhi was killed, his life indeed is celebrated, but there is no solemn evaluation of his death. Gandhi Smriti alludes to the killer, a “madman”.

Source: Indian Express August 27, 2017 19:39 UTC