No matter what Gandhi's personal life was, he still is among the Saints.
What is shocking is that the Indian government would even think of
censoring or banning this book ! Free speech is what is most important here.
Freedom of the Press. Is India another Iraq ??
Recently there was a book published in the USA with letters and evidence
about President Lincoln's homosexuality. The book was NOT censored, nor was
it banned.
There is a Broadway show right now, THE BOOK OF MORMON, which has a hit
song: FUCK GOD !! That show is running to packed houses. It has not been
censored or banned.
SO, the lesson to be learned here is one of the "separation of church and
state."
Gordon and Jay ( your Santa Fe connection !)
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In a message dated 3/31/2011 1:53:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
zeus200...@yahoo.com writes:
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.
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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/Article1-678
973.aspx_
(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.h
tml?mod=WSJ_article_related_
(http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703529004576160371482469358.html?mod=WSJ_article_related)
