Arun Gandhi
Born in 1934 in Durban, South Africa, Arun Gandhi is the
fifth grandson of India's late spiritual leader Mohandas
Karamchand "Mahatma" Gandhi. In 1946, just before
India gained independence from Britain, Arun's parents took
him to live with his grandfather for eighteen months. At
twenty-three, Arun returned to India, worked as a reporter
for The Times of India, and cofounded India's Center for
Social Unity, whose mission is
to alleviate poverty and caste discrimination. Arun and
his wife, Sunanda, came to the United States in 1987 and
in 1991 founded the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
in Memphis,
Tennessee.
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