Bhubaneswar: The Gandhi Peace Foundation of Nepal has appointed Shashanka Sekhar Das as Gandhi Peace Ambassador International for Odisha, India.
The foundation is an international body which promotes the ideals of the Mahatma, propagating non-violence, tolerance and world peace.
Shashanka, popularly known as the Paperboy, is the Limca Book of Records holder for the largest collection of different newspapers of the world.
He belongs to a family of Gandhians in Jajpur’s Bari. His grandfather had participated in Gandhiji’s Harijan Padayatra in 1934. He has set up a private museum in his village Aurangabad, where his collection of newspapers is kept. He has also authored two books.
As the Gandhi Peace Ambassador, he will undertake many programme on the 150th Anniversary of the Mahatma’s birth. In November this year, he will re-enact the epic Harijan Padayatra from Puri till Bhadrak, walking on the path that was taken by Gandhij and stopping at all the places where he had stopped.
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