Gandhi’s Grandson Speaks at PCC

By Monrovia Weekly

Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, visited Pasadena City College on Feb. 22 to speak about his grandfather’s teachings.
The lecture, titled “Relevance of Gandhi in the 21st Century,” was well received by the small, but enthusiastic crowd.
The talk covered the author’s new, monumental biography of his grandfather, “Gandhi: The Man, His People and the Empire.”
The book is said to be the first to give a complete, balanced account of Mahatma Gandhi’s life. With unprecedented insight and access to family archives, Rajmohan explores the evolution of his grandfather’s teachings of non-violent resistance, while examining the relations between Muslims and non-Muslims.
Rajmohan, a peace activist, once served on the Indian Parliament. He also led the Indian delegation to the U.N. Human Rights Commission in 1990. He is currently in the South Asian Middle Eastern Studies program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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