Mahatma Gandhi's biography in Gujarati, written by Narayan Desai, son of Gandhi's personal secretary Mahadev Desai, is being translated into Malayalam. AHMEDABAD: Mahatma Gandhi's biography in ...

Joseph Lelyveld, a former executive editor of The New York Times, has written a biography of Mohandas Gandhi called Great Soul. It doesn't seem like Lelyveld set out to pen a hatchet job--The Wall ...

In his latest book, "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India" (Alfred A. Knopf, 410 pages, $27.95), Joseph Lelyveld's title and subtitle are, in a sense, at war with one another and ...

At the height of the khadi movement, when Mahatma Gandhi exhorted everyone to boycott foreign clothes, Kasturba, his wife, complained that she found it difficult to wear a khadi sari and cook as it ...

A new biography of Mohandas Gandhi has sparked outrage in India because it depicts the Mahatma as a racist and a bisexual. Joseph Lelyveld's Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India ...

There are politicians and the usual rent-a-mob in India who want Katherine Frank’s Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi (HarperCollins; 567 pages) banned. It doesn’t matter that most haven’t read ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In Wednesday’s L.A. Times, Jonathan Kirsch reviews ‘Great Soul,’ the ...

Mohandas Gandhi's latest biographer, Ramachandra Guha, often recounts what South Africans of Indian origin have told him: You gave us a barrister named Mr. Gandhi; we gave you a Mahatma (a Sanskrit ...