Friday, July 13, 2012

India dishes out $1.3 million to stop auction of Gandhi letters that may show he was gay...

A book released last year stirred an unusual controversy on whether Mahatma Gandhi had a gay lover.

“Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India,” written by Pulitzer-Prize winning author Joseph Lelyveld, includes passages that some interpreted as hinting that Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach, a German-Jewish architect, were more than just very good friends. (This included a rather inflammatory review published in The Wall Street Journal.)

The focus on Gandhi’s sexuality upset many in India, including politicians and relatives of Gandhi. For many, suggesting that the Father of the Nation may have been homosexual, something Mr. Lelyveld has since denied, was tantamount to blasphemy. In Gandhi’s home state of Gujarat, the book was banned.

Gandhi’s friendship with Kallenbach is again at the center of attention. The Indian government on Tuesday announced it paid $1.28 million to purchase the Gandhi-Kallenbach Archives, thereby withdrawing the material from a proposed Sotheby’s auction in London. Full story...

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