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A sculpture depicting India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi and his Jewish-Lithuanian architect friend Hermann Kallenbach was unveiled in the town of Rusnė in western Lithuania on Friday.
Mahatma Gandhi, his secretary Sonia Schlesin and Dr. Hermann Kallenbach
Mahatma Gandhi, his secretary Sonia Schlesin and Dr. Hermann Kallenbach
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The bronze monument was designed by sculptor Romualdas Kvintas and sponsored by private donations.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, who took part in the ceremony, said the monument celebrated a friendship between two individuals as well as two nations - Lithuania and India - and the ac

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