Rajmohan Gandhi is a leading public intellectual and humanitarian, prolific author, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. He will discuss "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi,” at 5 p.m. in the De Ciccio Family Auditorium, Salomon Center for Teaching. In 2007, his biography of his grandfather, Gandhi: The Man, his People, and the Empire, was chosen for the prestigious National Biennial Barpujari Prize of the Indian History Congress, given once in two years for an outstanding work of history. Gandhi has worked consistently for India-Pakistan and Hindu-Muslim reconciliation, and was recently elected President for two years of Initiatives of Change International, an NGO working for trust and reconciliation.