20 Facts About Kobad Ghandy

Kobad Ghandy was born on 1951 and is an Indian communist activist.

Kobad Ghandy became involved in revolutionary politics whilst a student in England in the 1970s, and worked as an organizer for the civil rights movement in India.

Kobad Ghandy was a founding member of the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights.

Kobad Ghandy was arrested on the accusation of being a politburo member of the underground Communist Party of India in 2009.

Kobad Ghandy was acquitted and released after almost a decade in jail in 2019.

Kobad Ghandy went to Cambridge University, England to pursue a course in chartered accountancy but got initiated in radical politics, was deeply influenced by the revolutionary ideology and returned to India with his course unfinished.

Kobad Ghandy was the founding member of Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights.

Kobad Ghandy spent the late 1970s and early 1980s in Nagpur, working as a CPDR organizer.

Kobad Ghandy became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India People's War in 1981.

Kobad Ghandy reportedly participated in a 2005 meeting with the Nepalese Maoist leadership in Delhi, along with Kishenji, Prachanda and Baburam Bhattarai.

Kobad Ghandy was elevated to the Politburo of the CPI at the 2007 Unity Congress.

Kobad Ghandy was placed in charge of the CPI Central Committee sub-committee on mass organisations and was responsible for the production of English-language party materials.

Kobad Ghandy was expelled from the party in December 2021 for his anti-party statement in his book Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir, over charges of straying from the party line of dialectical materialism, embracing spiritualism and bourgeois idealism.

Kobad Ghandy was arrested in South Delhi on the 17 September 2009 while undergoing treatment for cancer.

Kobad Ghandy's arrest was made public on September 21,2009.

Per a statement by CPI the arrest had occurred after Kobad Ghandy had been betrayed by a party courier.

Kobad Ghandy had made a visit to the guerrilla zone prior to his arrest.

Kobad Ghandy was released from prison on bail in 2019, after serving a majority of his jail term in Vishakapatnam Central Jail.

Kobad Ghandy married Anuradha Shanbag in 1977 She was a Central Committee member of CPI.

Kobad Ghandy died of cerebral malaria in April 2008 in the jungles of Dandakaranya in Central India.