HMEDABAD, India: Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Kanu Gandhi, worked for NASA for over two decades before returning to India in 2014, died at the age of 87 on Monday, two weeks after being admitted to hospital in western Gujarat state following a stroke.

One of several grandchildren of India’s famous independence leader, Kanu was a scientist for NASA but spent the final months of his life living an ashram in Surat, in the Indian state of Gujarat. He had suffered a stroke and had been in hospital since October 26.

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