Haven't ever been inside Mani Bhavan? Now is your chance despite the lockdown. The authorities at the museum dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi — housed in a historic building on Laburnum Road in Gamdevi — have started a virtual tour of the premises that you can view online.

The project is still in its beta phase. Mani Bhavan secretary Yogesh Kamdar says that there are a couple of minor errors in terms of spellings and phone numbers, which will be sorted out in a jiffy when the lockdown is lifted. But even as it stands, the tour offers a 360-degree insight into the different rooms with rare photographs and memorabilia, aimed at building an image of Gandhi that goes beyond him just being an icon of the freedom struggle. As Kamdar explains, "Of course, he was an icon of India's Independence. But he was also much more than that in terms of his philosophy, world vision, and certain values he espoused, which might or might not have had any bearing on the freedom movement. His ideas about the equality of women, dignity of labour and the need for cleanliness are of perennial importance, for example, but [as a country] we have tried to put Gandhi in a narrower box."