Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at his memorial in Raj Ghat here on the occasion of the 80th Independence Day. (Pics/PTI)

Visitors at Mumbai’s historic Mani Bhavan museum marked Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary on Thursday. October 2 is also observed globally as the International Day of Non-Violence, following a 2007 UN resolution honouring the freedom leader (PICS/ATUL KAMBLE)