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regime in South Africa and was imprisoned on several Khadi Advisory Board, she is a trustee of the Kasturba occasions by the Racist Government. After his death Ashram and was the Deputy Chairperson of Gandhi his wife Sushila continued to manage the Phoenix Smriti. Usha Gokani is a trustee of the Malwli Ashram Settlement and for some time edited and published in South Gujarat and The Gandhi Smriti Samiti. the Indian Opinion.
Rajmohan Gandhi. a professor of history and an Ramdas Gandhi came into his own back in India. eminent Historian is a writer of biographies and historic he participated in all the Satyagrahas launched by his works. He has written authoritative biographies of his father, He was sent to South Africa to manage the Grandfather, Sardar Patel, and Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan Phoenix Ashram and publish the Indian Opinion for a and other eminent leaders of the freedom movement. short stint. In 1930 he independently lead a Salt March As well as a history of Punjab. Gopal Krishna Gandhi from Bardoli to Bhimrad in defiance of the British was also an IAS officer and served many prestigious monopoly on manufacture of salt and the draconian posts. He was a Refugee Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Salt Tax and was arrested.
A High Commissionaire to South Africa and Norway, The youngest son Devadas was the apple of his Director of the Nehru Centre in UK, Governor of West father's eye, after 1930 he was constantly a shadow Bengal and for a brief period Bihar too and a respected following his father. He accompanied his father when political commentator. Bapu went to England to attend the Round Table But this is a story of the siblings Arun and Ela Conference and continuously there after. He reached Gandhi.Arun the elder one is the second child of Manilal the Aga Khan Palace Prison Camp first upon hearing and Sushila Gandhi, Ela is his kid sister. They were of his mother Kasturba's death and Birla House after both born and brought up in south Africa on the Phoenix Bapu's murder. He rose to be the Managing Editor of Settlement. After his father's death Arun came back to Hindustan Times.
India and settled here. He married my mother Sunanda None of the sons attempted to exploit their parents and worked for Times of India and raised two children legacy for self benefit or to promote themselves, and Archana and Tushar in Bombay. In 1987 Sunanda and the legacy continued amongst the grandchildren to, Arun went to USA initially for a study on the parallels although many chose to disappear into anonymity, between discrimination in South Africa, USA and India. some worked to the best of their ability to carry forward The discrimination of Apartheid in South Africa, Racism the illustrious legacy they had inherited, consciously in USA and the Caste system in India. Initially they not ever attempting to profit from it in any manner. were hosted by the University of Mississippi in the little Neelamben Parikh worked all her life as a teacher and town of Oxford. In 1991 my parents moved to Memphis then principal in schools catering to adivasis in the Tennessee and established the M.K. Gandhi Institute Dangs in South Gujarat with her Husband Yogendra for Nonviolence, after raising funds by selling the Parikh. She has written many books about Her Grand correspondence between Bapu and his parents Manilal father Harilal and the relationship between Bapu and and Sushila. Many criticised Arun for this but he his four daughters-in-law. Dr. Kanti Gandhi a medical managed to create an institution to propagate Doctor worked as a medical officer in the Birla Nonviolence which continues to do the good work even enterprise Hind Cycles and was a medical Doctor in today. The objective of the Institute was to encourage the Century Mills Labour Colony in Worli. Here he the study of the ideology of Nonviolence and its practice established a charitable trust Lok Seva Trust to serve as a weapon of resistance, Justice and community the poor labour force working in the textile mills of and nation building as practised by M.K. Gandhi. The Bombay. He was a licenced Taxi driver and owned M. K. Gandhi Institute of Nonviolence is not an and drove a Kali Peeli Taxi in Bombay till his death. educational institution, it does not conduct any classes Grand Daughter Sumitra was an IAS officer when it in Nonviolence neither does it offer any courses in was still known as ICS and served in the interiors of peace studies, it is a resource centre for non violence Central India. She then became a Rajya Sabha Member peace and truth as practised by M.K. Gandhi for social and served as a member of the Constitution Review justice and resistance and its application in current Commission formed by the Atal Behari Vajpayee times. It helps create content and study materials for government. Tara Bhattacharya served the Kahdi and universities wanting to create academic courses on Village Industries Commission as a member of the non violence, passive resistance and conflict
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