Kobad ghandy biography for kids

Indian politician

Kobad Ghandy (born 1951) is an Indian communist activist. He became involved in revolutionary politics whilst a student in England in the 1970s, and worked as an organizer for the civil rights movement in India.

Kobad ghandy biography for kids

He was a founding member of the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights. He was arrested on the accusation of being a politburo member of the underground Communist Party of India (Maoist) in 2009. He was acquitted and released after almost a decade in jail in 2019.

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Early life

Kobad Ghandy was born to Nergis and Adi. Adi was a senior finance executive in Glaxo. He hails from a wealthy Parsi family in Mumbai.^[3] Ghandy attended The Doon School and later St.

Xavier's College, Mumbai.^[4] He went to Cambridge University, England^[5] to pursue a course in chartered accountancy but got initiated in radical politics, was deeply influenced by the revolutionary ideology and retur