Mahatma Gandhi was bisexual and left his wife to live with a bodybuilder of German-Jewish origin, reports Daily Mail quotes from the controversial biography of the leader of the Indian independence movement.
As stated in the biography, he was in a strong love relationship with Herman Kallenbach.
Kallenbach was born in Germany, but emigrated to South Africa, where he made his fortune as an architect. Gandhi was working in South Africa at the time and Kallenbach became one of his closest disciples...
The two lived together for two years in Kallenbach's house and promised that they would give each other "even more love, and more, and more... such love, the likes of which the world has never seen".
Outstanding research by the author Joseph Lelyveld enriched the biography "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi And His Struggle With India" with details about the Indian leader's life and relationship with Kallenbach like never before.
He left his wife when he had his fourth child
When he was 13, Gandhi married 14-year-old Kasturbai Makhanji. After having a fourth child, they separated in 1908, after which Gandhi was in a relationship with the Kallenbachs.
One of Gandhi's letters to his lover, in which he says, "Your portrait is on the fireplace in my bedroom, is a testament to the extent of their love." The fireplace is opposite my bed”.
"I can't imagine a uglier thing than the relationship between a man and a woman"
In this connection, Gandhi called himself "Upper House" and his lover "Lower House".
"I can't imagine a uglier thing than the relationship between a man and a woman," he once told him.
Gandhi and Kallenbach were allegedly in a relationship for two years, from 1908 to 1910.
Gandhi and Kallenbach were separated in 1914, when Gandhi returned to India. Kallenbach was not allowed to be with him, because of the First World War, but they kept in touch by letters.
In 1933, Gandhi wrote a letter in which he said he wished more than anything that he had never met his ex-wife.
He also slept with his 17-year-old niece
Lelyveld's book paints a completely different picture of Gandhi's private life in public and makes incredible claims about his sexuality.
The book is expected to be contested by millions of Gandhi's followers around the world, in whose eyes he has the status of a god.
The book also states that when he was 70 years old, he regularly had sexual relations with his 17-year-old niece and other women, trying to feel pleasure, but they did not excite him.
According to the Daily Mail, none of the Indian officials in Britain were available for comment on Gandhi's biography.
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