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Years ago that Mahatma Gandhi died. Now the family of the Indian political and spiritual leader is pleading with the Indian government to force an Australian restaurant called Handi Ghandi to stop using the vegetarian pacifist to sell its food. The restaurant—tagline: “Great curries. No worries”—sells a range of meat and vegetarian curries, including beef, which is sacred to Hindus and forbidden. “It goes absolutely against all his beliefs,” Gandhi’s great-grandson tells Reuters. “Using his image to sell beef curries and such doesn’t gel.

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