Tushar Arun Gandhi was born on 17 January 1960, in Shegaon, Maharashtra, to Arun and Surnanda Gandhi.
10 Facts About Tushar Gandhi
Tushar Gandhi's father was an actor and his mother was a researcher.
Tushar Gandhi studied at Adarsh Vinay Mandir, a local Gujarati-medium school.
Tushar Gandhi holds a diploma in printing from the Government Institute of Printing Technology, Mumbai.
Tushar Gandhi is best known for having established in 1998 in Vadodara, Gujarat the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation.
Since 1996 he has served as President of the Lok Seva Trust, an NGO which a nephew of Mahatma Gandhi had establish in central Bombay in the mid-1950s for the welfare to textile-mill labourers.
In 2000, Tushar Gandhi portrayed himself in a fictional Tamil - Hindi movie directed by Kamal Hassan, "Hey Ram".
In 2001, Tushar Gandhi negotiated with American marketing firm CMG Worldwide the use of the Mahatma's image in an advertisement for a credit card company.
Tushar Gandhi has said he was misquoted and his claims relate only to "a certain group of Brahmins from Pune [who] were continuously attempting on the life of my great grandfather", rather than to Brahmins in general.
Tushar Gandhi is trustee at Maharashtra Gandhi Smarak Nidhi since 2014.