Mahatma Gandhi’s Grandson and His Wife Now Live in an Old-Age Home

The two moved into the old-age home on 8 May and have refused to reveal how they came to live there.

File photo of Kanubhai Gandhi pulling Mahatma Gandhi’s stick during a walk on a beach. (Photo Courtesy: University Express)

Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Kanubhai Ramdas Gandhi and his wife Dr Shiva Laxmi Gandhi moved to an old-age home on the outskirts of Delhi on 8 May, reports The Hindu.

At the Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram, they’re with 123 other people. The 87-year-old Kanubhai is the son of Gandhi’s third son, Ramdas.

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The Father of the Nation’s family members refuse to reveal the events that landed them in an old-age home.

However, Kanubhai has thanked Dr GP Bhagat, who runs the home, for providing shelter when he was “homeless”.

However, Dr Gandhi refuted his choice of words. Talking to The Hindu, she says:

We are not homeless. We are just a little clueless. We don’t have a bowl in our hands. We don’t want money, we just want prayers. I am quite capable of getting us out if we were in the US, but here we do not know to navigate.

Kanubhai, who has worked at NASA Langley Research Centre and studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, lived in Hampton, Virginia, with his wife, according to the report.