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Gandhi's Ashes

The BBC's Andrew Whitehead reports that a box containing the last remnants of Mahatma Gandhi's ashes has been taken out of a bank vault for the first time by his great grandson. The ashes will be taken to the confluence of three of India's holiest rivers.

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