Tushar gandhi
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Biography
Born in 1934 in Durban, South Africa, Arun is the fifth grandson of India’s legendary leader, Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi. Growing up under the discriminatory apartheid laws of South Africa, he was beaten by “white” South Africans for being too black and “black” South Africans for being too white; so, Arun sought eye-for-an-eye justice. However, he learned from his parents and grandparents that justice does not mean revenge, it means transforming the opponent through love and suffering.
Grandfather taught Arun to understand nonviolence through understanding violence. “If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world,” Gandhi said. Through daily lessons, Arun says, he learned about violence and about anger.
Arun shares these lessons all around the world. For the past five years, he has participated in the Renaissance Weekend deliberations with President Clinton and other well-respected Rhodes Scholars. In recent years his engagements included speaking at th
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Arun Manilal Gandhi
Indian-American activist (1934–2023)
Arun Manilal Gandhi (14 April 1934 – 2 May 2023) was a South African-born Indian-American author, socio-political activist and son of Manilal Gandhi, thus a grandson of nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi. In 2017, he published The Gift of Anger: And Other Lessons From My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi (New York: Gallery Books/Jeter Publishing 2017).
Gandhi criticized the Indian government in an article he wrote after they subsidized a 1982 film based on his grandfather's life with $25 million. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1987 where he studied at the University of Mississippi. They later moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where they founded a nonviolence institute hosted by the Christian Brothers University.
Early life
Arun Manilal Gandhi was born on 14 April 1934, in Durban, to Manilal Gandhi and Sushila Mashruwala. His father was an editor and his mother was a publisher for the Indian Opinion. Arun had seen his grandfather Mahatma Gandhi once briefly at age 5 and didn't see him again unti
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The grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, the world’s most recognizable and influential symbol of peace, Arun Gandhi has continued his family’s legacy during his lifetime, making his own humanitarian mark on the world. Born in South Africa in 1934, Gandhi was the target of bigotry as a child for being Indian in a society where most people were either white or black. In his adolescence, Gandhi lived with his grandfather for a period of two years, a time which inspired him and showed him, firsthand, what it meant to be a champion of nonviolence and a promoter of peace and unity. Following his grandfather’s assassination, and the death of his own father, Gandhi became a journalist in India and then, subsequently, moved to the United States to pursue research projects on the subject of global prejudices. During his first years in the U.S., Gandhi also founded the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence. A prolific writer with hundreds of articles and several books to his name, including the novel, Gandhi: Legacy of Love, Gandhi has worked tirelessly to impart his wisdom, and the lessons he learn
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