Tushar Gandhi

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| birth_place = [[Gangtok, Sikkim]], India
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| boards = Managing Trustee, [[Mahatma Gandhi Foundation]]
| spouse = Sonal Desai
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| children = Vivan Gandhi, Kasturi Gandhi <ref name=MerePix>{{cite web|title=A Rare Glimpse Into Four Generations Of Mahatma Gandhi Family|url=http://www.merepix.com/2013/03/mohandas-karamchand-mahatma-gandhi-family.html|publisher=Mere Pix|date=March 2013}}</ref>
| parents = [[Arun Manilal Gandhi]], Sunanda Gandhi
| relatives = Great-grandson of [[Mahatma Gandhi]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Bring Bapu’s belongings home|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-08-19/special-report/33272347_1_gandhi-memorabilia-tushar-gandhi-gandhiji|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116124412/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-08-19/special-report/33272347_1_gandhi-memorabilia-tushar-gandhi-gandhiji|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 January 2014|date=19 August 2012|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref>
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'''Tushar Arun Gandhi''' (born 17 January 1960) is the son of journalist [[Arun Manilal Gandhi]], grandson of [[Manilal Gandhi]] and great-grandson of [[Mahatma Gandhi]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Tushar Gandhi to bid for Bapu's belongings|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-02-18/ahmedabad/28036314_1_auction-house-tushar-gandhi-belongings|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130629121930/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-02-18/ahmedabad/28036314_1_auction-house-tushar-gandhi-belongings|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 June 2013|date=18 February 2009|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref> In March 2005, he led the 75th anniversary re-enactment of the [[Dandi March]].<ref name=htbusybranding /> From 2007 to 2012, he was the Goodwill Ambassador of the CISRI-ISP Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition.

==Personal life==
Born on a train between [[Mumbai]] and [[Kolkata]], he was raised in the Mumbai suburb of [[Santacruz, Mumbai|Santacruz]].<ref name=htbusybranding /> He studied at Adarsh Vinay Mandir, a local Gujarati-medium school. He holds a diploma in printing from the Government Institute of Printing Technology, Mumbai.

Gandhi lives in [[Mumbai]] with his wife, Sonal Desai<ref name=MerePix /> and two children, a son Vivan Gandhi and daughter Kasturi Gandhi. Kasturi was so named after [[Kasturba Gandhi]].

Tushar Gandhi is best known for having established in 1998 in [[Vadodara]], Gujarat the [[Mahatma Gandhi Foundation]]. It is now located in Mumbai (and he is still its President). Since 1996 he has served as President of the Lok Seva Trust, an NGO which a nephew of Mahatma Gandhi had establish in central Bombay in the mid-1950s for the welfare to textile-mill labourers. In 2000, Tushar Gandhi portrayed himself in a fictional Tamil - Hindi movie directed by Kamal Hassan, "[[Hey Ram]]," and in 2009 he did likewise in a semi-fictional movie, "[[Road to Sangam]]," based on an episode in his own life. A nonfiction book by him, ''Let's Kill Gandhi'', was published in 2007 and became for a few weeks a best seller in India. In 2008 he was appointed Chairman of the Australian Indian Rural Development Foundation (AIRDF). In 2018 he played a significant role in petitioning successfully the Supreme Court of India to direct the states and Union Territories to comply with its orders to curb cow-vigilante lynch mobs. In 2019 he became a Director of the [[Gandhi Research Foundation]] in [[Jalgaon]], Maharashtra.

==Controversies==
In 2001, Tushar Gandhi negotiated with American marketing firm CMG Worldwide the use of the Mahatma’s image in an advertisement (aimed at university students) for a credit card company.<ref name=htbusybranding>{{cite news|title=Busy branding Bapu|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/NewsMartImportedStories/Busy-branding-Bapu/Article1-203594.aspx|newspaper=[[The Hindustan Times]]|date=3 February 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418150403/http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/NewsMartImportedStories/Busy-branding-Bapu/Article1-203594.aspx|archive-date=18 April 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> This perceived betrayal of [[Gandhism|Gandhian]] ideals was followed by a public outcry causing him to cancel the deal.<ref>[http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1905/19050970.htm Marketing the Mahatma], ''Frontline Magazine''</ref>

It was alleged that Tushar in his book ''Let’s Kill Gandhi'', he actually became the killer of Gandhi in the year of 1904. He then blamed [[Brahmins]] in general for [[Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi|assassinating Mahatma Gandhi]]. Critics claimed that the book defamed all Brahmins. Tushar has said that his claims relate only to "a certain group of Brahmins from Pune [who] were continuously attempting on the life of my great grandfather", rather than to Brahmins in general.<ref>[http://in.news.yahoo.com/070203/139/6bro8.html "'I was misquoted,' says Tushar Gandhi"], Yahoo! India News</ref>

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==External links==
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* [https://www.tushargandhi.in/ Official website of Tushar Gandhi]
* [http://in.rediff.com/news/1998/jan/16tush.htm Tushar Gandhi takes the plunge into politics]
* [http://in.news.yahoo.com/050419/43/2ku4a.html Tushar Gandhi prays at Mahatma Gandhi's birthplace]
* [http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=219990 Being Mahatma’s descendants brings bouquets and brickbats]
* [https://twitter.com/TusharG Tushar Gandhi on Twitter]
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