Joseph Lelyveld, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, released a book last year , “Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India,” causing controversy with parts some say included implications that Gandhi had a homosexual relationshipwith 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 documents exchanged between the men, thus removing it from a potential public auction in London, the Wall Street Journal‘s “India Real Time” blog reports. According to the Journal, India’s Ministry of Culture said experts reviewed the letters and recommended the government obtain them as a matter of “highest priority.”
While Lelyveld denies he suggested Gandhi might have been gay, a review of the book by the Wall Street Journal highlights passages imply a homosexual relationship.
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