Arun Gandhi

Arun Gandhi

Co-founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence.

Born in 1934 in Durban, South Africa, Arun Gandhi is the fifth grandson of India’s legendary leader, Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi. He is co-founder of the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, now at the University of Rochester in New York. He is a regular participant in Renaissance Weekend deliberations with President Clinton and other Rhodes Scholars. He worked for 30 years as a journalist for The Times of India. He is the author of several books, including "A Patch of White" (1949) and "The Forgotten Woman: The Untold Story of Kastur, the Wife of Mahatma Gandhi," which he wrote with his late wife Sunanda. Close.

Arun Gandhi

Co-founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence.

Arun Gandhi is the fifth grandson of India’s legendary leader, Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi. He is co-founder of the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, now at the University of Rochester in New York. more »

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Thankful for Life, Mutual Respect

I think we must first and foremost be thankful for life. Second we ought to be thankful for family and friends but these are becoming rare commodities. Many families are broken up and friends are like autumn leaves delicately poised to fall with a whiff of wind. But, we do have life and we have intelligence and we should be able to make a resolve to strengthen our bonds with family and friends and eventually with all of humanity. If we continue to label and stereotype people we will alienate them, but if we begin to respect people as human beings whoever they are and wherever they come from then creating a bond of friendship will become easier.

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