Join us for a Zoom with Tushar Gandhi, the great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. He will talk about the messages and legacy of his family. This discussion starts at 5 pm PT/ 8 pm ET. Please see the description below. Join here.
“Gandhi is one of the most significant figures of modern times. He began as an insignificant individual with no particular talents and gradually became a remarkable human being. He considered that everyone has the potential for ethical and spiritual growth and that community is the most effective basis for our development. Gandhi’s ideas have a relevance beyond his own time. His approach was holistic and evolved through experience.” – Mahatma Gandhi Foundation
Mahatma Gandhi, the father of India, taught and lived nonviolence throughout his life. Yet his life ended by assassination. In a world today that is filled with both beauty and violence, how do we act? How do we carry forward Gandhi’s message to be the world we want to see? To embody in our lives this message? Please join us for a discussion with Tushar Gandhi, great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, about the legacy of his family and the importance of nonviolence.
Tushar Gandhi is a social activist, an author and an actor. In 1998, he established the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation with its most important aim of explaining and demonstrating the continuing relevance of Gandhi’s insights and actions today. In 2019 Tushar became a Director of the Gandhi Research Foundation. In 2023 he was appointed as the Ambassador for “Return to Palestine.” He has appeared in a fictional Bollywood film, “Hey Ram” and a semi-fictional movie, “Road to Sangam.” Tushar has worked on behalf of textile-mill workers and on curbing cow-vigilante lynch mobs. He authored “Let’s Kill Gandhi” and “The Lost Diary of Kastur, My Ba.” For more about Tushar Gandhi, click here.
In “Let’s Kill Gandhi,” his book about the death of his great grandfather in 1948, Tushar writes about many factors surrounding Gandhi’s death, including: ethnic violence and turbulence in India, Pakistan and Kashmir; misinformation, lies and mistrust; the role of law enforcement and politicians; apathy; human error; and more. How does this translate to our world today? To the USA? To India? To other parts of the world? How do we transition from violence and hate to compassion and love?
We need to move from what is my right to do
and act on what is right to do.
– Tushar Gandhi
