Tushar Gandhi

Tushar Gandhi (b. 1960) is a great-grandson of Kastur and Mohandas Gandhi, grandson of their 2nd son Manilal and daughter-in-law Sushila and son of Sunanda and Arun Gandhi. In 1996, he discovered an urn containing the ashes from Gandhi’s funeral pyre, forgotten in the strong room of the State Bank of India’s, Cuttack branch. He secured permission from the Supreme Court and immersed them in the Triveni Sangam on 30 January 1997. The same year he founded the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, of which he is currently the founder president. Tushar is the president of Lok Seva Trust and a director of the Gandhi Research Foundation, Jalgaon. In 2005, he commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Dandi Kooch, by organizing re-enactment of the 241-mile-long walk. He walked the entire stretch and was instrumental in getting the prime minister to declare the route from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi, India’s only historic heritage route. Tushar currently lives in Mumbai with his wife Sonal and children Vivan and Kasturi.