Ashish Lata Ramgobin is a notable great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi who was convicted of fraud and forgery in South Africa and sentenced to seven years in prison in 2021. She is the daughter of rights activist Ela Gandhi. Another great-granddaughter, Nilamben Parikh, was an author and social worker who passed away in 2025 at age 92.
Ela Gandhi was born in Durban, South Africa. Her father Manilal Gandhi was editor of the Indian Opinion and ran the Phoenix Settlement; it had been founded by her grandfather Mahatma Gandhi and it was where she grew up.
Which experiments were the most bizarre and did these continue well into his old age? Sleeping with one, then two teenaged girls (Manu, his 18-year-old grandniece, and then Abha, the wife of Gandhi's grandnephew Kanu Gandhi) was behaviour that continued into 1948, when he was killed.
What was Kanu Gandhi's relationship to Mahatma Gandhi?
Kanu Gandhi, a second cousin of Mahatma Gandhi went to work as a typist and personal assistant to his uncle. Because he had direct access to this political leader, his colleagues urged him to photograph his life. He began doing so in 1938, with Gandhi's permission.
Charles Freer Andrews (1871 – 1940) was an anglican priest, social reformer, supporter of Indian independence movement, and a beloved friend of Mahatma Gandhi. Andrews arrived in Delhi, India in 1904 as a part of his mission to free India.
Mahatma Gandhi's Great Granddaughter Sentenced To 7 Years In Prison In Fraud & Forgery Case
Did Einstein know Gandhi?
On Gandhiji's 70th birthday Einstein famously wrote “Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth”. Unfortunately Gandhi and Einstein never met.
After Gandhi's assassination in 1948, Manu stopped writing but continued speaking about him until her own death in 1969. Her diaries, preserved in archives, have now been translated into English and provide valuable insight into Gandhi's last days.
Mahatma Gandhi had only one wife, Kasturba Gandhi, whom he married as a teenager in an arranged ceremony; they remained married until her death in 1944, and together they had four sons, although their relationship evolved significantly as Gandhi later took vows of celibacy.
The “Seven Blunders of the World” IT IS said that Mohandas Gandhi devised a list of what he termed the “Seven Blunders of the World.” They are as follows: • Wealth without work • Pleasure without conscience • Knowledge without character • Commerce without morality • Science without humanity • Worship without sacrifice ...
There are estimated to be 120 living relatives of Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi. They are the descendants of the four sons - Harilal, Manilal, Ramdas and Devdas, Rajmohan's father - that Gandhi had with his wife Kasturba, whom he married when he was 13.
Rajmohan Gandhi (born 7 August 1935) is an Indian biographer, historian, politician and research professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US.
Later he started wearing a dhoti, a long coat and a turban. Then he changed to wearing clothes made from Khadi - a khadi shirt, a khadi stole and a khadi cap (topi) but later he started wearing only a khadi wrap around. It would be interesting to know why Gandhiji made so many changes in his dressing habits!
Madeleine Slade (22 November 1892 – 20 July 1982), also known as Mirabehn or Meera Behn, was a British supporter of the Indian Independence Movement who in the 1920s left her home in England to live and work with Mahatma Gandhi. She devoted her life to human development and the advancement of Gandhi's principles.
Maneka first met Sanjay Gandhi in 1973 at a cocktail party hosted by her uncle, Major-General Kapur, to celebrate his son's upcoming wedding. Maneka married Sanjay, the son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, one year later on 23 September 1974.
Ela Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, is a peace activist who will be sharing her message of social justice gathered during a lifetime establishing democracy, using nonviolence to overcome a segregated Apartheid South African regime.
In May 1883, 14-year-old Kasturba was married to 13-year-old Mohandas in a marriage arranged by their parents. Recalling the day of their marriage, her husband once said, "As we didn't know much about marriage, for us it meant only wearing new clothes, eating sweets and playing with relatives."
Accompanying Gandhi, as usual, were his grand-nieces, Manu and Abha. As the 78-year-old leader climbed the steps of the prayer platform, a man in khaki emerged from the crowd, pushed aside Manu, pulled out a pistol and pumped three bullets into the frail leader's chest and abdomen.
Albert Einstein had famously said about Mahatma, "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood".
“His last meal was something that Dr. Mohan and all of you present here would approve of. It comprised a bowl of cooked vegetables, 12 ounces of goat's milk, four ripe tomatoes, four oranges, one glass of juice of raw carrot and finally, a small glass of decoction of ginger, sour lime and aloe.
Moreover he had no faith in Gandhi, and his cult of non-violence and the Congress. In his conversations with Chuhar Singh, a 'Ghadrite' prisoner, Bhagat Singh told him, “Babaji, the imperialist British do not care for the popular urge. Gandhi-viceroy meetings... would be no good to us.
Elsa Einstein. Elsa Einstein (18 January 1876 – 20 December 1936) was the second wife and cousin of Albert Einstein. Their mothers were sisters, thus making them maternal first cousins. The couple were also paternal second cousins (i.e. their fathers were first cousins).
Gandhi's affectionate nickname for Andrews was Christ's Faithful Apostle, based on the initials of his name, "C.F.A". He was widely known as Gandhi's closest friend and was perhaps the only major figure to address Gandhi by his first name, Mohan.
