Author of Gandhi biography downplays gay story during book tour
”To avoid any controversy, with all respect to the author … it was a decision which was jointly taken in the interest of everything being in a peaceful status…. We just took this innocent decision to make it smooth. Nothing more.”
Puran Dang of the Indian Americans of Lexington, MA explaining his organization’s decision to cancel an appearance by author Joseph Lelyveld. (Boston Herald)
Lelyveld’s book, Great Soul, contains a few paragraphs about Mahatma Gandhi that claim a love relationship existed between the historic civil rights pioneer and a male German architect. Lelyveld reportedly believes that they likely were committed to celibacy, though.
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