Gandhi got his glasses repaired at this 130-year-old Lucknow shop

Claiming a tiny slice of Gandhi history, an optician running a 130-year-old shop says Mahatma once came to get his glasses repaired re and even wrote a letter of appreciation to his great grandfar. To Sonu Baijal's great regret, letter itself got lost during shop's revation. But family's Gandhi connect remains strong, he said with pride. According to Baijal, glasses came for repair to shop during one of Gandhi's visits to City of Nawabs.

"One of damd lenses was replaced and some mir repairs were me. A pair of glasses took 10-12 days to be me, as in those days power of lenses was imparted manually," he said. 

Gandhi wrote a letter to Sonu Baijal's great grandfar 

Baijal said Gandhi wrote a letter to his great grandfar appreciating repair work, but that treasured possession got lost during revation of shop. Mahatma Gandhi's great-grandson Tushar Gandhi told PTI re is reason to disbelieve claim. "I feel that this piece of information will be cherished by people," he said. Baijal said a unique feature of Mahatma Gandhi's iconic round spectacles was that frame could be worn from both sides. 

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Planning to set up a history corner in shop 

" hinges of spectacles were so flexible that it was virtually a reversible pair, and frame could be worn from eir side," he said, ding that family has conserved a pair of similar glasses from that era. Baijal plans to set up a history corner in shop being run by his family for five generations. shop will include pre-Independence era glasses, cash memos, letters from customers and like, he said. Luckw is place where Mahatma Gandhi met Jawaharlal Nehru in 1916 for first time. He was in city to attend Congress session from December 26-30 that year.

" 1916 session witnessed two of Congress stalwarts -- Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru -- meeting for first time, which perhaps changes course of Indian politics and history," former Luckw mayor Dauji Gupta told PTI. 

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