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Arun Gandhi is the fifth grandson of Mohandas Gandhi and a committed advocate of the practice of non-violence. Arun lived with Mohandas Gandhi for eighteen months prior to his assassination and later became a journalist and reporter for The Times of India. After a career in journalism spanning over thirty years, Arun subsequently moved to the United States. Once in the United States, Arun Gandhi founded the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at the University of Rochester and also taught courses on Mohandas Gandhi at Salisbury University. He is the founder of the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute, which promotes community building in economically depressed areas by integrating Gandhian philosophy and vocational education. Gandhi is the author of A Patch of White (1949) and Legacy of Love: My Education in the Path of Nonviolence (2003), as well as a regular contributor to the Washington Post's "On Faith" site.