Mahatma Gandhi Death Day 2021: The matter is very old, but its effect and color remains intact even today. A 16-year-old girl from Haryana got a chance to meet Mahatma Gandhi for just five minutes. This short meeting changed the ideology and life of this girl named Tara Bahl. Tara Bahl is 96 years old today, but the lives of people, especially women, are still being changed by Bapu’s ideology.
Kasturba Gandhi has been running the National Memorial Trust since 1946, retired as Deputy Development Commissioner.
Tara Bahl is the director of the Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust located in Radaur in Yamunanagar district. The age is 96, but the day is still remembered when I met the Father of the Nation in Nagpur at the age of 16. She says the five-minute meeting left a deep impact on her life. That day is the most important day of his life.
Kasturba Gandhi National Monument Trust at Radaur.
Mahatma Gandhi visited Tara Bahl with her brother freedom fighter Dr. Baijnath. Baijnath, 103, is living in Amritsar these days. He was with Mahatma Gandhi in the movements in liberating the country. Originally Tara Bahl is a resident of the fort of Balod district of Chhattisgarh. He received his early education in Nagpur.
After this, he also got higher education from BSE and Lahore from Delhi University. Tara Bahl started teaching in 1947 at the Hindu daughter Pathshala in Kapurthala, Punjab. She retired as Deputy Development Commissioner from the Rural Development and Panchayat Department of Punjab in 1982.
Making women independent
Tara Bahl is the director of the Kasturba Gandhi National Monument Trust, Radaur since 1946. By staying here, she is training sewing embroidery for Anganwadi workers and women and is also involved in promoting non-violence and other ideas of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi. Through this trust, spinning wheel spinning and now sewing embroidery training are maintaining the tradition of making women and women self-reliant. At the time of building the ashram, Radaur was not a Haryana, but a Punjab province. Even now this ashram is the headquarters of the trust of Haryana-Punjab. The first head of this ashram was Rameshwari Nehru, aunt of Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Remember to meet the Father of the Nation
Tara Bahl told during a special conversation that elder brother Dr. Baijnath introduced him to the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi in Nagpur. She is the only woman in the district who got this opportunity at the age of 16. He took blessings from Gandhi. Tara Bahl says that she will remember those moments. Those moments were the most important moments of his life. After meeting the Father of the Nation, her ideology changed and she started taking Bapu’s non-violence and other ideologies to the people of the society.
There are unique pictures of the Father of the Nation in the Ashram Museum
The ashram also houses a collection of 100 photographs of Mahatma Gandhi from his charkha to the original. These hundred photographs remind Mahatma Gandhi’s life and his struggles. The ashram is working to spread his message of non-violence to the people. People from other states also come here on special occasions. People are surprised to see this museum.
