Arun Gandhi followed his grandfather’s footsteps…
On Tuesday, 02 May 2023, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Arun Gandhi died in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur after an age-related illness, family sources informed.
The funeral of the author and socio-political activist will be held at Kolhapur later today (on Tuesday, 02 May 2023), his son Tushar Gandhi told News Agency Press Trust of India (PTI).
He was born to Manilal Gandhi and Sushila Mashruwala in Durban on April 14, 1934.
Arun Gandhi followed in the footsteps of his grandfather as a social activist.
Arun Manilal Gandhi was born on April 14, 1934, to Manilal Gandhi and Sushila Mashruwala in South Africa’s Durban.
He was married to Sunanda, who was a nurse, in the year 1957 until her demise in 2007. Both of them have two children named Tushar Gandhi and Archana.
Sunanda and Arun came to Canada in 1987 and started the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in 1991 at the Christian Brothers University in Memphis.
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