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6TH AUGUST - HIROSHIMA DAY REMEMBERED

About 3,589 Students participated in the Peace Rally and took the pledge to work for Peace & Nuclear-free World

 

  

Students carrying placards marched for peace and nuclear-free world.

 

Students, graphically depicting the horror of the atom bomb, along with about 3,589 students from 78 colleges, social activists, and peace-loving citizens in the city marched for peace and a nuclear-free world from Azad Maidan to Hutatma Chowk on Hiroshima Day, today.

The Peace march was jointly organized by Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal and NSS Units of SNDT & Mumbai University to mark the 67th anniversary of the devastation of Hiroshima & Nagasaki with a deadly atomic attack by America during World War II & to join hands with millions of people of the world in their prayers to make a nuclear-free world.

The devastation had such an effect that one lakh sixty thousand people were killed in the bombing leaving several thousand crippled. The after effects of the bombing and radiation claimed over three lakh lives over the years.

The Peace Rally was lead by students, graphically depicting the horror of the atom bomb and carrying a huge banner depicting the devastating effects of nuclear attack and warning about future nuclear threat. Students were wearing aprons and Gandhi-caps with slogans like ‘No More Hiroshima’, ‘Save Mother-Earth’. NSS Volunteers from various colleges were also carrying placards and banners depicting slogans like ‘NO-BOMB, YES-PEACE’, and “We want to grow up, not to blow up”.

The Peace rally started from Azad Maidan and concluded at Hutatma Chowk, where a Pledge was taken by about 3,589 students to work for peace & a nuclear-free world. Shri Atul Salunke, NSS Co-ordinator of Mumbai University administrated the Pledge to the entire gathering.


 

Students, graphically depicting the horror of the atom bomb and carrying placards, marched for peace and nuclear-free world.


Students carrying placards marched for peace and nuclear-free world


Pledge to work for peace and non-violence was taken by the entire gathering at the end of the rally


Commemorating 67th anniversary of atomic bombing on Hiroshima