Tushar Gandhi is best known for having established in 1998 in
Vadodara, Gujarat, the
Mahatma Gandhi Foundation. It is now located in Mumbai (and he is still its President). Since 1996, he has served as the President of the Lok Seva Trust, an NGO established by Dr. Kanti Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi in central Bombay in the mid-1950s for the welfare of textile-mill labourers. In 2000, Tushar 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 (aimed at university students) for a credit card company. This perceived betrayal of
Gandhian ideals was followed by a public outcry causing him to cancel the deal. On January 30, 2003, as the 55th anniversary of his great-grandfather's assassination approaches. He and 150 other politicians have led a hunger strike in
New Delhi because of
Clone High's depiction of
Gandhi caused a massive backlash. In 2009, he did likewise in a semi-fictional movie, "
Road to Sangam," based on an episode in his own life. A non-fiction book by him, ''Let's Kill Gandhi
, was published in 2007 and became for a few weeks a best seller in India. Tushar in his book Let’s Kill Gandhi'', blamed
Brahmins in general for
assassinating Mahatma Gandhi. Some critics claimed that the book defamed all Brahmins. Tushar 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. In 2008 he was appointed Chairman of the Australian Indian Rural Development Foundation (AIRDF). He is trustee at Maharashtra Gandhi Smarak Nidhi since 2014. In 2018 he played a significant role in petitioning successfully the
Supreme Court of India to direct the states and Union Territories to comply with its orders to curb cow-vigilante lynch mobs. In 2019 he became a Director of the Gandhi Research Foundation in
Jalgaon, Maharashtra. He joined the
Bharat Jodo Yatra with
Rahul Gandhi. ==References==