Gandhi Smriti
The patch of ground where Gandhi was shot on 30 January 1948 is still there to stand on.
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Built in 1928 as a 12-bedroom Birla family mansion, this is where Gandhi lived his final 144 days. The room he occupied survives intact, the garden where he held nightly public prayer walks is open to walk through, and the Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum (opened 2005) layers in the broader story without overwhelming the place itself.
What to look for
- Martyr's Column in the garden, marking the precise spot where Gandhi was shot during his evening prayers
- The preserved room Gandhi occupied from 9 September 1947 until his death
- The pillar outside bearing a swastika in its original Sanskrit sense — displayed here as a deliberate illustration of how the symbol's meaning shifted in the 20th-century West
Entry is free; closed Mondays and national holidays. About 2 km from Connaught Place on Tees January Marg.
Gandhi Smriti is one of 35 sights worth the detour in Delhi, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Delhi pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Delhi
- Red FortThe ramparts where Jawaharlal Nehru raised India's flag on 15 August 1947 still host that ceremony every Independence Day.
- Qutb MinarSuccessive dynasties handed this tower off across 170 years — Aibak started it in 1199, Firuz Shah Tughlaq capped it with a cupola in 1368.
- Humayun's TombThe red-sandstone ancestor of the Taj Mahal — commissioned by an empress, designed by Persian architects, and finished a century before Agra.
- Jama MasjidShah Jahan built his imperial mosque at the highest point of Shahjahanabad — the Mughal capital — and it was regarded as a symbolic gesture of Mughal power across India.
- Lotus TempleTwenty-seven marble petals, grouped in threes, fold into a single hall where any person of any faith walks in without condition.
- India GateAround 13,300 names carved in stone — soldiers lost across Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and the Afghan frontier.