Kolhapur, May 2 (IANS) Arun Gandhi, the son of Sushila and Manilal Gandhi, and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, passed away here on Tuesday morning, his son said.
He was 89 and is survived by his son, Tushar, daughter Archana, four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
The last rites of Arun Gandhi – who referred to himself as a ‘Peace Farmer’ – shall be held in Kolhapur this evening.
He penned books like ‘Kasturba, The Forgotten Woman’, ‘Grandfather Gandhi’, with Bethany Hegedus and illustrated by Evan Turk, ‘The Gift of Anger: And other lessons from my grandfather Mahatma Gandhi’, etc.
–IANS
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