Mahatma Gandhi’s Grandson, Arun Manilal Gandhi Passes Away

KOLHAPUR: The grandson of Mahatma Gandhi passed away on Tuesday after a brief period of illness. Arun Manilal Gandhi was 89 years old when he passed and the funeral will be held at Kolhapur today itself according to his son Tushar Gandhi.

Arun Manilal Gandhi was born on 14 April 1934 in Durban South Africa to father Manilal Gandhi and mother Sushila Mashruwala. Arun Manilal Gandhi married Sunanda, a nurse by profession in the year 1957 but she passed away in 2007. They went to Canada in 1987 and opened the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in 1991 at the Christian Brothers University located in Memphis. They have been survived by their son and daughter named Tushar and Archana.

Arun Manilal Gandhi and his wife began the Gandhi Legacy Tour of India in 1997. He also curated two more tour itineraries namely the Gandhi Lifescapes Tour of India and the Gandhi Satyagraha Tour of India. He was also elected to the Board of Trustees of the Council for a Parliament of the World Religions in the year 2013.

Although he identified himself as Hindu, Arun Manilal Gandhi followed a more universalist view. He used to work very closely with the Christian priests and his ideologies saw influences from the Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic and Christian scriptures. Much like his noted freedom fighter grandfather, Arun Manilal Gandhi was also a strict believer in non-violence or ahimsa.

He also wrote several books during his time as a writer including A Patch of White and Legacy of Love: My education in the path of non-violence. He also co-authored The Forgotten Woman: The Untold Story of Kastur, the Wife of Mahatma Gandhi with his wife and a picture book on Mahatma Gandhi by Bethany Hegedus titled Grandfather Gandhi.

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