Gandhi’s sex life laid bare in new book FEATURE 04/25/2010

Gandhi’s sex life laid bare in new book

FEATURE 04/25/2010 NEW DELHI — A new book on Mahatma Gandhi has delved into the intimate life of the Indian icon whose famous vow of chastity did not prevent him sleeping with naked women and conducting bizarre sex “experiments.” “Gandhi: Naked Ambition” by British historian Jad Adams sheds new light on the spiritual leader and independence hero whose spartan existence and resistance to earthly pleasures are an integral part of his popular image. The book has been released in Britain and will be available soon in India where it is bound to make waves in a country where Gandhi’s image is fiercely protected and a source of national pride. That his attitudes to sex were censorious and unusual is well known. He wrote of his disgust at himself for having intercourse with his wife Kasturba, aged 15, when his father died in 1885.... MORE   Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100425com3.html

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