Controversial Book Labeling Gandhi “Gay” Continues to Spark Fury with Indian Mobs
Mahatma’s family, scholars and Indian mobs have received the new biography titled Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India, with contempt and fury as the book claims that Gandhi was bisexual and left his wife, Kasturba, in 1908 to live with Herman Kallenbach.
Joseph Lelyveld, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, has hinted about a homosexual relationship between Gandhi and a German-born Jewish architect , Herman Kallenbach.
The book, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, has been banned in Gujrat with where the state assembly unanimously voted for the ban. The ban is being considered in other parts of India as well.
Joseph Lelyveld, who was previously the executive editor with the New York Times, highlights two sentences from a letter, written by Gandhi to Kallenbach, on whose basis he deduces theirs to be a homosexual relationship,
"How completely you have taken possession of my body. This is slavery with a vengeance".
"Your portrait (the only one) stands on my mantelpiece in my bedroom. The mantelpiece is opposite to the bed."
According to Lelyveld,
"I do not allege that Gandhi is a racist or bisexual in ‘Great Soul".
The writer further maintains that he has made a contextual deduction and told the Times of India.
"The word ‘bisexual’ nowhere appears in the book."
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