"Gandhiji's memory and values should not be violated, the auction should not take place"
— Junior Foreign Minister Anand Sharma. Funny how much importance everyone attaches to simple objects, no?
Personally, I would prefer that a foreign museum buy them. I have seen museums here where a exhibit titled "Ancient rock carving depicting somethingsomething" is stuck to a wall using cement, and has splashes of paint over it because they painted the room after cementing the exhibit to the wall. Wow!