NEW DELHI (AP) -- Martin Luther King III paid tribute to India's pacifist icon Mohandas Gandhi on Sunday, commemorating the 50th anniversary of his father's pilgrimage to the country to study nonviolence.

"This is a moment I will remember all my life," King said after laying a wreath and showering red rose petals at the black marble platform that marks the site where Gandhi was cremated in the Indian capital in 1948.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, traveled to India in February 1959, where he studied Gandhi's teachings and its use in India's struggle for independence in 1940s. He came back more determined to end racism nonviolently in the United States.

"That work is not complete as there are still people that are not treated fairly. … There are still, as my father used to say, injustices and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," King told reporters.

King -- who is in India for nearly two weeks -- was accompanied his wife Arndrea Waters King and by civil rights icons John Lewis and Andrew Young, who worked alongside his father during the black civil rights movement from 1955-1968.

He will attend the opening of a special Gandhi-King exhibition, and speak on the nonviolent revolution. He will also attend the "Living Dream Concert" on Monday featuring jazz legend Herbie Hancock, rhythm and blues icon Chaka Khan and Indian drum maestro Zakir Hussain.

He will also visit Mumbai, the site of the November terrorist attacks that killed 164 people.

"There has to be a dialogue to understand what people are frustrated and angry about … If you don't give opportunity to people to be heard they resort to the lowest form of resolving the conflict -- that is violence," he said.

King is founder of Realizing the Dream Inc., a nonprofit organization he started in 2006 to continue his parents' work championing peace, justice and equality.

He said he might also collaborate with "Gandhi Smriti," an Indian organization running socio-educational and cultural programs based on Gandhi's life and mission.

King's father and Gandhi were assassinated by those opposed to their campaigns. King was shot in 1968, while Gandhi was killed in 1948 by a Hindu fundamentalist.