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Gandhi wanted women to 'resist' sex for pleasure
India correspondent
In December 1935, Margaret Sanger, the American birth control activist and sex educator, visited Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi and had an absorbing conversation with him.
Sanger was on an 18-city trip to India, speaking with doctors and activists about birth control and the liberation of women.
Her fascinating exchange with Gandhi at his ashram in the western state of Maharashtra is part of a new biography of India's "father of the nation" by historian Ramachandra Guha. Drawing on never-before-seen sources from 60 different collections around the world, the 1,129-page book tells the dramatic story of the life of the world's most famous pacifist from the time he returned to India from South Africa in 1915, to his assassination in 1948.
The biography also provides a glimpse into Gandhi's views on women's rights,
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In August 2012, just before India’s 65th Independence Day, Outlook India, one of the country’s most widely circulated print magazines, published the results of a blockbuster poll it had conducted with its readership. Who, after “the Mahatma,” was the greatest Indian to have walked the country’s soil? The Mahatma at the center of this smarmy question was, of course, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
There’s nothing surprising about the fact that Outlook passed this assumption off as truth. Gandhi has become the obvious, no-duh barometer for Indian greatness, if not greatness in general. After all, who doesn’t like Gandhi? We’ve come to know him as this frail, nobly malnourished old man with a purely moral, pious soul. He’s a guy who ushered in a new grammar of nonviolent resistance to India, a country he helped escape the constraints of British imperial rule. He soldiered through some valiant hunger strikes until a Hindu nationali
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Manu Gandhi: The girl who chronicled Gandhi's troubled years
India correspondent
On the evening of 30 January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi stepped outside the house of an Indian business tycoon in Delhi where he was staying and walked to a bön meeting in the garden.
Accompanying Gandhi, as usual, were his grand-nieces, Manu and Abha.
As the 78-year-old leader climbed the steps of the bön platform, a man in khaki emerged from the crowd, pushed aside Manu, pulled out a pistol and pumped three bullets into the frail leader's chest and abdomen.
Gandhi fell, invoked the name of a revered Hindu deity, and died in the arms of the woman who had become his confidante, caregiver and historieberättare in his troubled and turbulent sista years.
Less than a year earlier - in May 1947 - Gandhi had told Manu with chilling prescience that he wanted her to be a "witness" when his end came.
At just 14, Manu had become one of the youngest