the beginnings of another contreversy- gandhiji this time
it was the one relationship in his life that even a compulsive confessor like Gandhi barely spoke about, keeping her deliberately out of his otherwise candid autobiography. Now his grandson, Rajmohan Gandhi, breaks the silence and reconstructs in his forthcoming biography, Mohandas: A True Story of a Man, His People and an Empire, the moving story of the Mahatma's greatest temptation and how he struggled to overcome it.
For nearly 90 years, Gandhi's large familywhich included, besides his wife, four sons, their wives and children, national leaders, fellow ashramites and freedom fighters and even his biographers nursed one of the few secrets in his open-book life: a passionate love relationship the Mahatma had with a fiery beauty from Bengal called Saraladevi. She was a dazzling woman, by all accounts belonging to the cream of Bengal's aristocratic intellectuals, a niece of Tagore's, a writer and musician
there is a cover story in out look magazine. and the book is bound to be a hit ( because its written by his grandson)
These kind of details about the Mahatma makes him look human rather than the god like figure we have come to look at him as. Im sure it would be an interesting read. he probably fell in love with her because of her intellectual capabilities than her beauty. Hope people treat it as "interesting" rather than politicising it and making it a huge controversy, then we would know how much we have matured as a nation.
rajaji has used some classic words to dissuade gandhi.on record in paper as a letter . I forget the actual words but he has said" forget this infatuation and come back to lead us master"