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Arun Gandhi | |
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Born | Arun Manilal Gandhi 14 April 1934 |
Died | 2 May 2023 Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India | (aged 89)
Nationality | Indian, South African, American |
Citizenship | American |
Spouse |
Sunanda Gandhi
(m. 1957; died 2007) |
Children | 2, including Tushar |
Parent(s) | Manilal Gandhi Sushila Mashruwala |
Relatives | Ela Gandhi (sister) Mahatma Gandhi (grandfather) Kasturba Gandhi (grandmother) |
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.