Pics: picture of gandhiji? picture of kaka kalelkar? picture of mirabehn? 
Gandhi at Darwen, England, September 26, 1931. with Miraben (Madeleine
Slade).
attached picture of yerawada jail from newspaper, not very interesting.
basheer should be able to do a cartoon of gandhiji at the telescope
with a couple of jailers and other prisoners hanging around. 
i have added to rathnasree's article to clarify who different people she 
mentions were.

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Mahatma Gandhi, stargazing and astronomy
Based on an article and a lecture by
Dr Nandivada Rathnasree, Director, Nehru Planetarium, New Delhi

Mahatma Gandhi had a deep, though short-lived, interest in observing stars, a process he found to be a deeply spiritual experience.  He pondered over mysteries of the universe while observing stars using sky maps, and read a number of books on astronomy, all during a few months spent in the Yerawada Central Jail in Pune, where he was imprisoned by the British Raj in 1932.
Gandhiji was in the Yerawada prison in 1932 in company with Sabarmati ashramite D.B. Kalelkar (known as Kaka Kalelkar) who had an interest in bringing out books on astronomy in Gujarati. Kaka Kalelkar wrote Gujarati in Devanagari script, he believed that even if India did not have a national language, it should have a national script, so that Indians could try to read each other's writings. It was during this period and after Kaka Kalelkar left prison, that Gandhiji got an opportunity to learn about astronomy. The pictures show Gandhiji leaving Yerawada jail in 1933, and how the jail looks today.
In a letter to Kaka Kalelkar, dated July 23, 1932, Gandhiji wrote: "Looking at the sky, the impression we get of infinity, of purity, of order and of grandeur is one that purifies us. It may perhaps be that on being able to reach the planets and the stars one will get the same experience of good and evil that one gets here on earth. But truly divine is the peaceful influence of their beauty and coolness at this great distance. Also when once we are able to establish communion with the heavens it doesn't matter where we may happen to be. It then becomes like receiving the Ganga in one's own home. All these thoughts have made me a keen watcher of the infinite skies."
Gandhiji also seemed to have an educator's interest in understanding the science of the stars and making the content available in lucid textbooks on astronomy for Indian students.  In a letter written to Kalelkar in August 1932, he advised him that his book on astronomy "should give the names and short lives of Western astronomers, some of whom were men of great courage and spirit and of noble character". He also mentioned that the book should give some knowledge about physics. Thus he was well aware, not just about the positional astronomy aspects of watching the stars, but his reading had allowed him to realise that physics underlies an understanding of stars.
It was when aged 63, that Mahatma Gandhi set out to venture into this totally new area of learning. In a letter to Mathuradas Trikumji, a young grandnephew, he wrote, "I myself have been watching the stars every night and enjoy the experience immensely." Though he had an appreciation of the science of stars, his own interest lay in the fact that looking at a star-studded sky gave him a very satisfying spiritual experience.  What is more, using technology in this endeavour, seemed not to have interfered with the intensity of that spiritual experience.
In the articles "Watching the Heavens: I and II" which he sent to the ashram schoolchildren between February and April 1932, asking them to regularly observe the night sky, he combined his 'spiritual' view of the celestial objects with practical instructions for sky observations and even sketches of the Orion constellation (also called Mriga or Vettaikkaran). He advised ashram inmates to make their own sketches, one reason being that the constellation as seen from different locations on earth would have differing orientations.  He also advised beginner stargazers to observe from a fixed place at a fixed time, and sketch the constellations, and mentioned that once they are familiar with the constellations, they would be able to identify these even if their locations and the constellation orientations change.  He also discussed the possibility of a measurement of time by looking at the changing positions of the 'Saptarshi' (Great Bear) asterism.
He immediately clarified that these constellation names are "beautiful fancies", and that there are no such real figures in the sky.  Gandhiji wrote: "Both children and grown-ups love dramas and the spectacular scenes which they present. But no drama composed or acted by human beings can even equal the great spectacle which Nature has arranged for us on the stage of the sky".
An educationist in Pune, Lady Premlila Thackersey, lent him two telescopes.  Lady Premlila dedicated herself to women's education, and after India's independence became the first Vice Chancellor of the SNDT Women's University in Mumbai. The correspondence between Gandhiji and the British jailers is very funny to read today. The poor jailers could not decide whether this facility should be allowed for a prisoner. Gandhiji argued that the telescopes were only for his education. Finally the secretary to the Viceroy of India decided that it was {not} dangerous to allow Gandhiji this opportunity.
Gandhiji told a visiting journalist that astronomy "has become a passion with me. Every free minute I get I devote myself to it." He said that he could easily understand the use of the telescopes "as their adjustments, though delicate, are simple".  Gandhiji was indeed very hands-on with all his experiments.  He also mentioned that he had been keen to observe 'Parijata' (the star called Antares, Jyeshtha and Kettai, in the Scorpio/Vrischika constellation) which he had been unable to do. Apparently Kaka Kalelkar had told him that it is a red giant star. There is a sense of loss expressed by him for not having the time to observe the magnificence of the heavens as much as he could have had done.
In April 1933, Gandhiji's ashram fellow Madeleine Slade, the daughter of a British admiral whom he gave the name Mira, wrote from Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad, where she was imprisoned, to Bapu (as she called him) at Pune, where he was imprisoned.  "I hear you have got a telescope now-a-days! I once looked at the stars and planets through a very small one of my uncle's and even that was a wonderful sight. Every night as I look at the stars I think how you, too, must be looking at them from Yervada." The picture shows Mirabehn with Gandhi (to his left) at Darwen, Lancashire, England, in 1931.
This inspiration towards a pure and spiritual experience of seeing the beauty of the starlit night sky is denied to today's city children, due to the rampant light pollution in all Indian cities.  However, some of the excitements of the night skies, consisting of the moon, planets and brighter stars and celestial objects are yet available to be appreciated from city skies, with just a little guidance needed for anyone to locate and view these. That is what is being done during a year-long Bapu Khagol Mela being celebrated from October 2018 to October 2019.