New Delhi | 2 years ago
Ramachandra Gandhi cremated
New Delhi, June 14 - Ramachandra Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, was cremated Thursday with his daughter Leela performing the last rites.The 70-year-old philosopher-academician was found dead in a room at the India International Centre - Wednesday.Ramu, as he was affectionately known among his associates, had Sunday checked in at the IIC, his second home for several years, to escape the grue ... read more

2 years ago
Ramu Gandhi: A solitary thinker in smug, noisy times
Not many get to choose the place they die in, but knowing Ramachandra Gandhi, one gets an eerie feeling that this peripatetic thinker would have wanted to breathe his last moments in a place that was his home and yet not his home for so many years, symbolising the eternal homelessness of the modern intellectual.Ramu Gandhi, as he was affectionately called by friends and admirers, was a deeply soli ... read more

New Delhi | 2 years ago
Ramachandra Gandhi, Mahatma's grandson and thinker, dies
New Delhi, June 13 - Ramachandra Gandhi, the Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, philosopher, educationist and also an ardent cricket lover, was Wednesday found dead in his room at the India International Centre - here. He will be cremated Thursday.Ramachandra Gandhi, 70, was living in Bengali Market area of central Delhi but had Sunday checked in at the IIC - where he used to spend most of his time in rec ... read more

New Delhi | 2 years ago
Ramachandra Gandhi: the quintessential argumentative Indian
New Delhi, June 13 - He was a constant at the India International Centre -, a quiet presence reading in a corner, or studiously writing away in another. Ramachandra Gandhi, philosopher and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and C. Rajagopalachari, Wednesday passed away in his beloved IIC, the intellectual bastion of the capital he lent so much gravitas to.The 70-year-old Ramachandra Gandhi was at heart a ... read more

New Delhi | 2 years ago
Mahatma's grandson found dead in IIC
New Delhi, June 13 - Ramachandra Gandhi, a grandson of late Mahatma Gandhi and a renowned thinker, was Wednesday found dead in a locked room of the India International Centre - in south Delhi. He was 70.According to police, Gandhi was living in Bengali Market area of central Delhi but had checked in at the IIC Sunday after a power failure at his residence. 'It was a natural death and his body was ... read more