Kobad Ghandy

Kobad Ghandy (born 1947) 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. 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. His wife was feminist theorist and fellow communist activist Anuradha Ghandy. Ghandy attended The Doon School and later St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He went to Cambridge University, England to pursue a course in chartered accountancy but got initiated in radical politics, was deeply influenced by the revolutionary ideology and returned to India with his course unfinished.

Return to India Upon his return to India, he became active in revolutionary politics in Maharashtra. He was the founding member of Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights. He spent the late 1970s and early 1980s in Nagpur, working as a CPDR organizer.

Party leader Ghandy became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War in 1981.

Ghandy was elevated to the Politburo of the CPI(Maoist) at the 2007 Unity Congress.

Arrest He was arrested in South Delhi on the 17 September 2009 while undergoing treatment for cancer. She was also a Central Committee member of CPI(Maoist), and a feminist theorist.