Tushar Gandhi is the great-grandson of Kasturba and Mohandas Gandhi grandson of their second son Manilal and daughter-in-law Sushila and son of Sunanda and Arun Gandhi. He is founder-president of the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation president of Lok Seva Trust and director of the Gandhi Research Foundation Jalgaon.

In 2005 he commemorated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Dandi Kooch by organizing re-enactment of the 241-mile-long walk. He walked the entire stretch and was instrumental in getting the prime minister to declare the route from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi India's historic heritage route.

Tushar currently lives in Mumbai with his wife Sonal and children Vivan and Kasturi.