Global Exchange Gandhian Legacy Tour Leader - Dr. Arun Ghandhi
Dr. Arun Gandhi, a grandson of the great Mahatma Gandhi, is a retired journalist of 30 years with The Times of India. He has personal, first-hand memories of M.K. Gandhi, as he lived as a young teenager with his Grandfather for 18 months in 1946 and 47, up until two months before The Mahatma was assassinated in January of 1948. Dr. Gandhi and his late wife Sunanda founded the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, based both at the University of Rochester, New York and in Mumbai (Bombay), India.
With the Institute and also independently, Arun Gandhi has been a tireless advocate for many American and international nonviolent movements, and an advisor for organizations and projects for nonviolent conflict resolution. He keeps up a rigorous lecture circuit in the US and abroad.
Dr. Gandhi lives in up-state New York near his daughter and her family. He spends part of each year in India, in Mumbai, where his son Tushar Gandhi directs the Institute.
