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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November 21, 2007 8:45 AM

Materialism is to Blame

In a capitalist/materialist world everyone has become selfish and self-centered. We pass this message to children when we exhort them to be successful in life by any means possible. Thus, when relationships are contingent on "What am I going to get out of it?." the potential for conflict and unhappiness is rife. Family ties are very weak now and when people do get together it is more out of tradition than love and respect. Gandhi said "Materialism and morality have an inverse relationship. When one increases the other decreases." I believe we are witnessing this phenomenon now.

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