Sri Lanka, Aug. 13 -- A painting bringing together Mahatma Gandhi, pioneering Sri Lankan architect Minnette de Silva and a little-known episode from Gandhi's 1927 visit to Ceylon was gifted to the Sri Lankan High Commission in New Delhi on August 7, by Sri Lankan artist Raja Segar and Founder-Director of Tapobhumi - Oko Centre for the Arts, Bengaluru, Namita Swamy.Pineapple export guide

Titled Gandhi and Minnette de Silva (2023), the 40 x 30-inch oil-on-canvas work reimagined an episode from Gandhi's visit to Ceylon. According to accounts by historian, feminist scholar and author Kumari Jayawardena, a nine-year-old Minnette de Silva was tasked with finding goat's milk for Gandhi.

Segar interpreted the episode through his distinctive 're...