Arun Gandhi

Session: Lessons from My Grandfather

"Born in 1934 in Durban, South Africa, Arun Gandhi is the fifth grandson of India’s legendary leader, Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi. His grandfather taught him to understand nonviolence through understanding violence and he learned from his parents and grandparents that justice does not mean revenge, it means transforming the opponent through love and suffering. Today, he shares these lessons around the world.

Mr Gandhi is the author of several books. The first, A Patch of White (1949), is about life in prejudiced South Africa. His subsequent two books discuss poverty and politics in India, which were followed by a compilation of M.K. Gandhi's Wit & Wisdom. He also edited a book of essays on World Without Violence: Can Gandhi’s Vision Become Reality?, and wrote The Forgotten Woman: The Untold Story of Kastur, the Wife of Mahatma Gandhi, jointly with his late wife Sunanda. More recently he wrote Legacy of Love, my education in the path of nonviolence.
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