Inauguration Ceremony of M. Gandhi Bridge on 2nd Oct 2012 (143rd Birthday of Mahatma Gandhi)

photo documentary on the morning of 2nd October 2012 in Hanseatic City Hamburg…

The renaming of Hamburg’s water channel bridge front the new Elb-Philharmony building in the 1.8 million metropole Hanseatic City Hamburg (North Germany) shall remember visitors (Hamburg has annually 10 million tourists) and inhabitants that Gandhi was a ‘bridge builder’ and to connect different nations in a peacfully way as Germany is doing  since May 2012 with the “Days of India in Germany” to celebrate 60 years of Indo-German diplomacy –http://www.imcradio.net/daysofindiaingermany

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Consul General, Ms. M. Subashini and students of Blankenese School (Hamburg), Hamburg’s Senator for Culture Ms. Barbara Kisseler addressing the audience, the plaque to be placed on the bridge being unveiled and Members of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Initiative…

Hamburg’s Senator for Culture Frau Barbara Kisseler with members of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Initiative in Hamburg and students of Blankenese School, Hamburg

Hamburg’s Senator for Culture, Frau Barbara Kisseler with Consul General Ms. m. Subashini

Hamburg’s Senator for Culture Frau Barbara Kisseler addressing the audience

Visitors at the inauguration of the Mahatma Gandhi Bridge

Students of Blankenese school addressing the gathering

… at Hamburg Elbphilharmonie (in the background)

The plaque to be placed on the bridge being unveiled

The plaque to be placed on the bridge being unveiled

Members of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Initiative with the Plaque

Members of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Initiative with the Plaque

Inauguration of the Mahatma Gandhi Bridge

The newly inaugurated Mahatma Gandhi Bridge

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