And now we will soon have a bunch of people pointing to all the "evidences" to show he was one of us. Didnt he walk with girls like i do with my fag hags around me! Wasnt he attached to Nehru after all! Oh My nearly all the congressi were men ! but of course women were not allowed ! No Str8 man goes around the town topless ofcourse!
It seems absurd that these letters have now come up after being out in the open for a century and seem more a case of someone reading more to it than is there ... but still have t read em and know em. But i do not encourage banning a book --- even if it is spreading mis information as just this leads to finally stopping freedom of press and is a necessary evil of a virtue. Manoj --- On Thu, 31/3/11, Mike Milton <mmilto...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Mike Milton <mmilto...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: g_b on Gandhi, his loving relationship with a german body builder, and the difficulty of assimilating the (homo)sexual into the image of the mahatma To: gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, 31 March, 2011, 2:54 AM Perhaps the author needs some to boot him !!! Bloot, point here is not appreciating Gandhiji's principle ... for long we have done that and have given up now too. Point here is, if someone writes a story about me, I think I expect people to verify the veracity of the story before believing the same. We owe the same level of respect to Mahatma. Does any one his right mind think, if there was any truth to this story, British would have destroyed Gandhi and would have taken full advantage of it. Let us think before passing mundane comments at least about a great soul. Mike. From: Bloot Fontaine <blutfonta...@yahoo.co.in> To: gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wed, March 30, 2011 1:33:14 AM Subject: Re: g_b on Gandhi, his loving relationship with a german body builder, and the difficulty of assimilating the (homo)sexual into the image of the mahatma I am speaking from what I read in Mumbai Mirror. According to the author of the book, he has "discovered facts" about Gandhiji's sexual life from letters written by Gandhi to Kallenbach. In such a case, instead of even discussing Gandhiji's sexuality, would it not be a lot more pertinent to admire and even revere the honesty with which he preserved those letters so that his life could openly be studied? Never mind what his sexuality was, he was truthful, honest, open and courageous about any and everything! Otherwise, today we would not have known about this and been able to criticise/praise etc. --- On Tue, 29/3/11, akshay khanna <xae...@gmail.com> wrote: From: akshay khanna <xae...@gmail.com> Subject: g_b on Gandhi, his loving relationship with a german body builder, and the difficulty of assimilating the (homo)sexual into the image of the mahatma To: lgbt-in...@yahoogroups.com, gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, 29 March, 2011, 6:26 PM dear all, below is one of several reviews of Joseph Lelyveld's book, 'Great Soul', on which a ban is reportedly being planned in Maharashtra. (http://www.hindustantimes.com/Ban-looms-over-new-Mahatma-book-author-cries-foul/Article1-678973.aspx) . as though 'bisexual' were an insult. :) have not had a chance to read the book itself, but responses to the possibility that the father of the nation might have had a strong, erotic/sexual attachment to a man are interesting. xx akshay http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703529004576160371482469358.html?mod=WSJ_article_related
