Kishore Bhai passed away on the morning of August 15, 2022, at his home in Udaipur. He is survived by his wife Sudesh and two children, Tarun and Amita, son-in-law Roopen Arya and grandson Karan Arya.
He was 90 years old. He came to Udaipur at the behest of Mohan Sinha Mehta to head the Vidya Bhawan Rural Institute in 1972.
He then went on to be the chief executive of Seva Mandir, a voluntary organisation in Udaipur, for many years. He left Seva Mandir in 1983 to create a tribal-led institution called Ubeshwar Vikas Mandal.
Kishore Bhai was a nationally and internationally known Gandhian thinker and practitioner. He was friends with people like Aseem Shrivastav, a leading thinker in the