Proof has surfaced that trustees had claimed ashram is a heritage building

Different tune: Devaki showing the booklet of the proposed cultural centre which the ashram committee used to solicit funds for the project. In the booklet, they had claimed that the ashram was a heritage building.

THE trustees of the Vivekananda Ashram in Brickfields had previously used the term “heritage building” to solicit donations from the public, says Tan Sri Devaki Krishnan.

Devaki, who is a life member of the Sangeetha Abivirthi Sabah, a cultural arm of Vivekananda Ashram, dug up a souvenir brochure printed by the management committee more than two decades ago to back up her claim.