New Biography portrays Gandhi as racist Bisexual.

A lot of attention provides a new biography of the Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi. Posted she has none other than the Chief Editor of The New York Times, Joseph Lelyveld. Early reports in the biography of Gandhi is depicted as a "racist bisexual.

So reports the biography "" Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi And His Struggle With India "(Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India) is also about the time of independence leader in South Africa when Gandhi actually two years, together with others on a farm with the German-Jewish architect Hermann Kallenbach in Johannesburg, lived before returning to India in 1914 Kallenbach was obviously gay, and fired in the Indian independence fighter -. what the father of four children, but never replied.

Nevertheless Lelyveld quotes letters that Gandhi wrote to the German architect. In it are phrases like "You have completely taken possession of my body. This is total slavery" before. In another letter, Gandhi wrote: "Your picture (the only) is available on the mantelpiece in my bedroom."

This has led to the British and American press to the messages. been The Wall Street Journal says in his review, the biography of Gandhi described as "cranks and political sexual incompetents," whose "love of his life," Kallenbach was. Lelyveld himself disputes this interpretation of his biography: "I claim neither that Gandhi racist, or that he was bisexual," said the author on Tuesday via his publisher Alfred A. Button. "The word 'bisexual' occurs not once in my book," laments the author.

In India, these make the headlines as expected, considerable attention: the Gandhi expert Jad Adams, who last year, countless affairs Gandhi unveiled with young followers did not believe that he was bisexual: "If he had committed homosexual acts, there were many ways evidence" said Adams.

Gandhi's great grandson Tushar Gandhi can shake his head about the book: "Western writers have a morbid fascination with Gandhi's sex life," he told a newspaper in New Delhi. "This means they can sell their books better."

Others take the alleged revelations not so casual: For granddaughter Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee is "narrow-minded to discredit the man because of his friends who brought us the gift of violence."

The government of the Indian state of Gujarat even decided to ban the sale of the book. "Joseph Lelyveld representation of Mahatma Gandhi deserves contempt", said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his blog. "That should be tolerated under any circumstances." Also part of the state of Maharashtra considering a ban. And for the Indian Justice Minister Veerappa Moily, the book is "demeaning to the nation." The consequences of the ban is still no: the book is so far appeared only in the United States.

Another grandson of Gandhi, Rajmohan Gandhi said, was also against the contents of the book. But he was against a ban - have finally announced his grandfather always for free speech.

Source: GGG.at