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Fw: Biography Continues to Fuel Speculation re Ghandi's Sexuality / India Response

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Interesting that I always thought Ghandi, whom I admired very much, was gay, primarily because of his pacifist leanings, partly because of his mannerisms and some of the things he wrote. Either way, this relationship with Mr. Kallenbach sounds like an intriguing one... Some day I'll have to buy this book...   Indian Government Spends $1.3 Million To Stop Auction Of Gandhi Letters That May Show He Was Gay   The Huffington Post  |  By Laura Hibbard Posted: 07/12/2012 1:40 pm Updated: 07/12/2012 4:22 pm     Last year, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Joseph Lelyveld released his book, "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India," causing controversy with parts some say included implications that Gandhi had a homosexual relationship with architect Hermann Kallenbach.   Gandhi's home state of Gujarat banned the book in March, and now the Indian government has dished out $1.28 million to purchase an archive more than 1,000 letters and