'Gandhi-Kallenbach relationship homoerotic not homosexual'
AHMEDABAD: Long before the controversy over Joseph Lelyveld's book on Mahatma Gandhi, Bapu's relations with Hermann Kallenbach were explored by a Gandhian scholar James D Hunt.
In 1995, Hunt's unpublished working paper 'The Kallenbach papers and Tolstoy farm' said the relationship was 'clearly homoerotic' and certainly not homosexual. This could well be a befitting answer to the row triggered by Lelyveld's book 'Great soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India', in which Lelyveld has hinted that Gandhi was a bisexual and had a German-Jewish bodybuilder lover in Kallenbach.
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AHMEDABAD: Long before the controversy over Joseph Lelyveld's book on Mahatma Gandhi, Bapu's relations with Hermann Kallenbach were explored by a Gandhian scholar James D Hunt.
In 1995, Hunt's unpublished working paper 'The Kallenbach papers and Tolstoy farm' said the relationship was 'clearly homoerotic' and certainly not homosexual. This could well be a befitting answer to the row triggered by Lelyveld's book 'Great soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India', in which Lelyveld has hinted that Gandhi was a bisexual and had a German-Jewish bodybuilder lover in Kallenbach.
More: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-20/ahmedabad/29450520_1_gandhian-relationship-joseph-lelyveld [/QUOTE]