The Railways Ministry, tableau depicted the "Transformation of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to Mahatma Gandhi" The front portion of tableau showcased a steam engine on whose top was perched a bust of Mahatma Gandhi which is similar to the bust installed at the Pietermaritzburg railway station of South Africa. The tableau highlighted the incident in 1893, when the young Mohandas was thrown out of a "European only" compartment at Pietermaritzburg railway station in South Africa which acted as a catalyst for him to practice ''Satyagrah''.