In this picture taken on January 25, 2023, Indian author Tushar Gandhi, the great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, reads a book during an interview at his home in Mumbai. AFPPIX: India's rising tide of Hindu nationalism is an affront to the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, his great-grandson says, ahead of the 75th anniversary of the revered independence hero's assassination.
“That whole philosophy has now captured India and Indian hearts, the ideology of hate, the ideology of polarisation, the ideology of divisions,“ he told AFP at his Mumbai home.Tushar, 63, attributes this tectonic shift to the rise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party .
A temple dedicated to Godse was built near New Delhi in 2015, the year after Modi's election, and activists have campaigned to honour him by renaming an Indian city after him. Modi has regularly paid respect to Gandhi's legacy but has refrained from weighing in on the campaign to rehabilitate his killer.Tushar remains a fierce protector of his world-famous ancestor’s legacy of “honesty, equality, unity and inclusiveness”.
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