February 12, 2012
Arun Gandhi, a grandson of the Indian independence leader, will deliver this year's Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture this Monday evening at Sage Chapel on the Cornell University campus. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7:30pm on Monday, February 13th.
Gandhi grew up Indian under apartheid laws in South Africa, experiencing racial tension from an early age. It was after he was sent to live with his grandfather in India that he developed a lifelong commitment to the ideals of non-violence and social harmony.
Dr. Gandhi and his wife, Sunanda, founded the Mohandas K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in 1991. Following his wife's death in 2007, he moved the institute to the University of Rochester.
While at Cornell, Dr. Gandhi will meet with students, staff, and members of the MLK Commemoration Committee, and with Padre Alejandro Solalinde, who is visiting from Mexico as a guest of the Committee on U.S./Latin American Relations.
