Obituary
Ramchandra Gandhi
(1937-2007)
New Quest mourns the death of Professor Ramachandra Gandhi---distinguished philosopher, and regarded by many as one of the finest minds in contemporary India, whose philosophical inquiry explored religion, mythology, aesthetics, politics, culture and society with equal felicity.
Professor Gandhi was an active philosopher and not just an academic one. He was in constant dialogue with his contemporaries and his students, colleagues. Friends recall his stimulating conversations as much as his classic recent works such as Sita’s Kitchen, I am Thou: Meditation on the truth of India, Swaraj: A journey with Tyeb Mehta’s ‘Shantiniketan Triptych’, and the fable/novella Muniya’s Light.
A grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and C. Rajagopalachari, he earned his doctorate in philosophy at Oxford and later taught at reputed universities like Princeton and Shantiniketan. His admirers remember him as a contemporary sage, an Advaita Vedantin, expounding the core issues faced by contemporary society in his brilliant and original style.
— D.C.
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