The palace is closely linked to the Indian freedom movement as it served as a prison for Mahatma Gandhi, his wife Kasturba Gandhi, his secretary Mahadev Desai and Sarojini Naidu. With the Mahatma’s death anniversary today comes the news that the civic body has decided to preserve the monument by reducing the width of the BRTS route by 15 metres instead of acquiring land – while the course will be 60-m wide elsewhere, it will be 45 m near the palace on Nagar Road.

Future tense: Existing vehicular traffic situation on Nagar Road opposite Aga Khan Palace. Pic/Krunal Gosavi