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FROM THE LAND OF MAHATMA

by Gyanvitaranam

    The storm kicked up by the ban of the book ‘Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India’, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph Lelyveld seems to have settled as the book has hit the bookstores in Gujarat , the birth place of Mahatma. This article takes you through the contents of the books and its rather strange plot. of the books and its rather strange plot.

     A controversial book on Mahatma Gandhi which hinted at the possibility of the Father of India’s Independence being homosexual and had been banned by the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat is now available in Ahmedabad. ‘Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India’, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph Lelyveld, highlighted the closeness between Bapu and his dear friend Hermann Kallenbach.

   The reviews hinted that the two were in a homosexual relationship. On March 30, 2011, the Gujarat assembly had....

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