THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A controversial biography of Mahatma Gandhi has claimed that the revered political leader was racist and bisexual.Great Soul, written by former New York Times executive editor Joseph Lelyveld, makes several new claims about the man who led India to independence.
The book alleges that as an older man he held "nightly cuddles" – without clothes - with seventeen year-old girls in his entourage, including his own niece.
It also suggests that he was in love with German-Jewish architect and bodybuilder, Hermann Kallenbach, for whom he left his wife in 1908. » | Monday, March 28, 2011
